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Fwd: question about apache-ssl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Fri Nov 9 15:28:27 2001
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
Cc: asst-help@MIT.EDU, "Lusztig, Michal N" <miki@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Team (and heads up to ASST),
After yesterday's meeting I went over to W92 to take care of some
SAPweb business and while there I ran into Miki. I asked her about
the pros and cons associated with each of the "Short URL mod"
implementations and she explained the following:
1. The "direct to Hesiod" approach has the advantage that Hesiod is
always up to date, but can be slow if there are a lot of people
banging away at Hesiod.
2. The "Tom Coppeto database lookup" approach has fewer performance
problems, but requires maintenance of a nightly feed from Hesiod.
3. Unless we really have a strong reason for wanting to use short
URLs we are better off not including this mod. People sometimes
unintentionally type in URLs that map to Athena lockers and find
themselves retrieving a different web page from the one they actually
wanted.
Based on this insight I agreed that she should omit the "Short URLs"
mods altogether and just implement the ",htaccess" mod for us. She
expects to get it done before Thanksgiving and will then work with
Jody to port the new Apache distribution over to AIX.
Rocklyn
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To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
Subject: question about apache-ssl
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 11:40:46 -0500
From: Michal N Lusztig <miki@MIT.EDU>
I would like to clarify some points before I finish producing a revised rev7
of apache-ssl.
I understood that you want apache-ssl to have support for .htaccess.mit
the way our main web.mit.edu server has.
Nevertheless in the first E-mail you mentioned a source path that contain
another feature for an apache server : short URL's.
Questions :
Do you want to have an apache-ssl server that contains .htaccess.mit and
short URLs as well ?
If you want short URL's I have two implementations of this feature. The
first one is relying on calls to the hesiod server for learning if a path
is an AFS locker. The second implementation (the one in the sources your
initial E-mail pointed to) written by Tom Capetto gets the info about lockers
from a DB that is refreshed nightly from some feeds.
Please let me know a.s.a.p so that I could finish crafting the apache-ssl
that may help you best.
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