Re: Library for off-system

[Xico leite <xxleite@...>]

thanks for information!

but wsapi needs to run over a server ... well, ill take a look first,
and also i have some headaches with cgi/fastcgi drives ...

any comments about the "persistence database"?

2010/3/18 Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Xico leite <xxleite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> plugin like lighttpd has, ill atach the "persistence database" and
>> "off-system library" on server process, so plugin will be a lua
>> metaclasse that will be loaded into server process...
>>
>> cgi ... well when i ask on kepler list about it, they said that lua
>> pages runs under cgi...have u already take a look at server variables
>> response?
>
>
>> well, i create a "lp" global var that have some methods like
>> "lp.header( name,value ), lp.cookie( ... ), lp.write( ... ),
>> lp.vars['??'] lp.req['??']" all pages need a header, cookie, something
>> to display, server variables and request variables ...
>
> But... this sounds like you are rebuilding wsapi:
>
> http://keplerproject.github.com/wsapi/libraries.html
>
> Which to my knowledge is what kepler uses to talk to its host env,
> which could be xavante, or other stuff.
>
> Are you sure you aren't confusing wsapi, the interface of which was
> designed to "look" a bit like CGI, and CGI itself?
>
> I don't mean to discourage you, you sound like you're having fun, but
> if you want to build a distributed content network, you might consider
> skipping the "build http server" stage, and get to the hard stuff!
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>