Re: Is it possible to build apache http server as a in-process module?

["Leo Li" <liyilei1979@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Morgan Gangwere <0.fractalus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Leo Li wrote:

Hi, all
      I would like to adopt apache http server in my project. But it is necessary for the http server to be an in-process module to be plugged in the current system. That is, I would make a little modification to the make file and build the httpd as a dll/so and export the main method for other modules to reference. But would it lead to some side-effect?
  Thank you in advance.
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Good luck!

Leo Li

Short answer: its not possible
Long Answer: Its not possible because apache was designed as a stand-alone HTTPd.

Simple solution: write a way for your app to talk to Apache. I.e. write a Module that mubmles between your app and apache when it gets a request of some kind that it likes.

Past that, why would you want to do what you're talking about?

 

  
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Thank you for your answer, Morgan.

 

   What I want to do is to plugin an in-process http server module in an exsiting product to expose its original functionality as web service (soap over http). :)  Since the existing product is already an executable one so it seems that the only choice is to write an apache module to communicate with apache http server and the existing product by IPC...

   I know there are in-process http server in java but I would not like to add the burdon of an additional JVM and the cost of JNI calls so I am now looking for an in-process http server in native language.

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Good luck!

Leo Li