Hi *! We have the following situation at hand: - we have a (c++) server under solaris offering a service through a socket, i.e. receiving and returning XML structures - so far our clients use an apache server sporting a proprietary soap-module to access this service as a soap-webservice - by the module binding apache workers to worker threads in our server, apache basically does the loadbalancing or rather task distribution & thread management for our server - since the soap-part of the module is pure overhead and the rest is less than transparent, we'd like to get rid of this module Therefore the task is: Find a leaner way of getting the xml-requests to our servers and the responses back to our client while keeping apache as task distributor if possible. After searching faqs and archives, my impression is: We have to write our own module (e.g. following the lines of mod_cgid) to let a handler do the socket stuff... Or is there an easier way? thanks in advance, dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx