RE: How to specify a particular user module to handle a specific httprequest?

["Valkanas Nikos" <nbal hq otenet gr>]

Both Rob and Liang are right. I don't expect TUX to gain significant acceptance unless it can supplement services offered by mainstream web servers (like apache) in a similar way, transparent to the client. The client will not commit to write different code for unproven servers. If that server flops in a couple of years, what's one to do with his code? In addition the particular method has very serious shortcomings (i.e. cannot use post variables with a module).

I don't think that redirecting traffic, i.e php to apache, is the solution either. I think that redirection is slower than a direct connection to apache. Therefore all benefits offered by TUX (mainly speed) are negated in a site that has 95% dynamic content (very usual in ecommerce or database content driven sites).

I am trying to work on that change for TUX, but I have very little precious spare time to go. Hopefully Ingo will see wisdom in this, possibly raise its priority. Myself I still have problems figuring out how TUX works. strace -f gives me some good overall feeling. However for a good knowledge, I would need to use gdb. I have found it very difficult to use it on multiple processes, with kernel space code. Any debugging advise would be greatly appreciated. I expect that 2 weeks from now I will find so more free time to take another crack at it.

Nikos

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liang Yang [mailto:Liang.Yang@asu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 5:17 AM
> To: tux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: How to specify a particular user module to 
> handle a specific httprequest?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> What you mean all request will be sent to the first module? If I want
> the first module to only resposnd to the graphic file request 
> from client,
> can Apache still receive all the other requests from client 
> if I redirect
> them to Apache(on port 8080)?
> 
> If the first module accpet the client graphic file 
> request(suppose user
> want to get demo.jpg file on the server? Should the 
> http://server/demo.jpg
> will result in the action of first.tux?   what's the correct 
> URL format?
> http://server/module.tux doesn't include any graphic file information
> client want to get.
> 
> Liang
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tux-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:tux-list-admin@redhat.com]On
> Behalf Of Robert S. Nasby
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 7:27 PM
> To: tux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: RE: How to specify a particular user module to handle a
> specific http request?
> 
> 
> You can't specify modules like that.  tux must be set up to 
> either send ALL
> request to one specific module (the first one on the list), 
> or call modules
> via the URL (as in http://www.mydomain.com/module.tux).  
> There is currently
> no way to specify module1.tux handle *.jpg documents, while 
> module2.tux
> handle *.mpg documents.  this is a feature I would personally 
> like to see
> included, but this would involve a change in the fundamental 
> way tux handles
> requests.
> 
> Rob Nasby
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tux-list-admin@redhat.com 
[mailto:tux-list-admin@redhat.com]On Behalf
Of Liang Yang
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:52 PM
To: tux-list@redhat.com
Subject: How to specify a particular user module to handle a specific http
request?


Hi,

If I want to use my user module to handle some specific http request
(for example, requests for big graphic file), I know I need to add MIME type
in /etc/tux.mime.types(add a line such as "image/jpeg     jpg jpeg jpe"),
but I don't know how to specify a particular module to handle this kind of
request if I loaded multiple user modules at the same time.Suppose I loaded
demo.tux, demo2.tux,demo3.tux when starting TUX, but I only want demo.tux
to hanlde graphic file request, I don't want other user modules to be
involved.
How can I do it?

/etc/tux.mime.types doesn't contain the corresponding parameter to specify
a particular user module to hadle a particular mime type files, the
reference
manual just says "all extensions listed after TUX/module will be handled by
TUX userspace modules".

BTW, I can use http://localhost/demo.tux to invoke my user module demo.tux,
but if I specify
only demo.tux to handle http request about .jpg file, should the URL
http://localhost/sample.jpg
work and also result in "hello webworld" in the screen just like
http://localhost/demo.tux ?

Sometimes I feel I really need help from TUX experts since I can hardly find
any useful documents
about TUX in Internet  :-)

Liang



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