On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, Ken Hardy wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 1995, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Why wouldn't you use simple software created for the task of access
> > control to secure access control, like tcp_wrappers or netacl?
> >
>
> It is possible but not recommended to run the CERN httpd from inetd
> because of the overhead to spawn it so often; it's more efficient to have
> it running in daemon mode and have it fork itself for new connections as
> it's already processed its config file, and the image is already in core.
> This is even more important now, IMHO, with the proliferation of Netscape,
> which asks for _lots_ of URLs at once.
Very good point. Twas an oversight on my part, honest:)
>
> Http-gw & plug-gw are much more lightweight, so it's not _as_much_ a
> concern running them from inetd. Don't have any empirical measurements,
> though.
>
> -- KH
>
>
>
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