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"Phil Endecott" <spam_from_boost_dev_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
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> Jarrad Waterloo wrote:
>> Phil Endecott wrote:
>>> I have also used the Apache module API, and have written
>>> standalone HTTP servers.
>> How does one go about doing that?
>
> Which - the Apache module or the standalone HTTP server?
>
> Apache has copious documentation, which is good because the API is very
> complex in a kind of "C++ written in C" sort of way.  I did not enjoy
> using it, but it is stable and featurefull.
>
> The code for my standalone server, which is part of Anyterm (GPL
> licence), is online at
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> http://svn.anyterm.org/anyterm/trunk/daemon/HttpDaemon.cc
>
> This makes use of a general-purpose thread-per-session TCP daemon class
> of mine, combined with an HTTP request parser written using Spirit.
>
> The rest of Anyterm is designed so that it will work as either an
> Apache module or with this standalone HTTP daemon.  This makes it all
> much more complicated than it would otherwise need to be (for example I
> have to use shared memory in the Apache case; luckily the Boost shared
> memory library first appeared at exactly the right moment - thanks
> Ion!).  So unless you really need something that will work in both
> contexts I don't recommend copying it.
>
> In fact, I think that I would recommend always using a standalone HTTP
> daemon, and using Apache's mod_proxy, or something similar from another
> web server, to communicate with it.
>
>> I have tried
>> using POCO but it's a little buggy and I can't seem to get any support. 
>> So,
>> if I could learn to do the same but using Apache, I would be ecstatic! 
>> Could
>> you provide a tutorial/example on how this could be done?
>
> Well my code is all online, and there is lots of Apache documentation.
> But what I have is far from a general-purpose C++ API for Apache, and
> the Apache API itself is not great for rapid application development.
>
> At one time there was a "mod_cplusplus" for Apache, but I don't think
> it is up to date.  You might like to ask about this on the Apache lists.
>
> Please feel free to mail me privately if you have any non-Boost
> questions about any of my code.
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> Regards,
>
> Phil.
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