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Informational Document: ILU Requestor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Thu Mar 7 13:33:00 1996
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Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 13:23:16 -0500
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A new informational document is available in the W3C tech reports archive:
This work is related to the W3C activity area "WWW and OOP"
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/OOP/Activity
[W3C:] WD-ilu-requestor-960307
The ILU Requester:
Object Services in HTTP Servers
W3C Informational Draft 07-Mar-96
This version:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-ilu-requestor-960307
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-ilu-requestor
Authors:
Paul Everitt, Digital Creations <paul@digicool.com>
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Status of this document
This document provides information for the W3C members and other interested
community. This document does not specify a W3C standard of any kind.
Feedback should be directed to the author.
A list of current W3C documents can be found at:
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Abstract
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is not scaling to meet the requirements
of today's dynamic, interactive webs. For this reason, multiple vendors have
proposed C callable APIs. These APIs allow authors to alleviate the
performance penalty of CGI, and allow tighter integration of add-in modules.
Unfortunately, this comes at the price of complexity and portability.
This document describes a new model for extending WWW servers. First, HTTP
is captured using an interface specification, which eliminates the
ambiguities of interpretating a standards-track document. This interface is
then implemented atop a particular httpd's API. Finally, all of this is done
using a standard distributed object model called ILU.
Digital Creations' work on our ILU Requester reflects this design and shows
its advantages. This paper describes the ILU Requester.
