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Subject: Re: Majorcool / Re: Support of old config methods
From: Bill Houle <Bill . Houle @ SanDiegoCA . NCR . COM>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 14:22:01 -0700
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>, majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM

At 10:10 PM 6/6/97 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>
>I'm going to keep looking into it.  One thing bugs me a bit, though.  If
>I'm not mistaken, every form submission just reruns the script with
>different parameters.

Yup. CGI apps are basically 'stateless'. Transient state is maintained by
passing hidden variables to subsequent stages.

>This means that the Majordomo objects aren't really
>kept around long. I don't think this is a problem, but the compilation
>time is just going to be painful. 

The best way around this might be to have "Majordomo" be a daemon process
and have the Web i/f communicate via TCP client? But the problem with this
is that it makes the Web interface dependent upon the client/server
interface rather than having multiple independent interfaces available as
originally discussed...


--bill



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