[Zope-dev] Medusa - Apache - Squid

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Tue, 4 Jun 2002 21:04:00 +0100


On Tuesday 04 Jun 2002 12:48 am, buelent aldemir wrote:
> I often read that for "security reasons" one should use Apache or Squid
> in front of Zope.
>
> So simple question: why? Isn`t the Medusa Webserver secure that all?

Against denial of service from malformed or extreme http conversations, n=
o.=20
There are details in the Collector, and list archive.

> And why does zope.org uses Apache? I would like to understand the reaso=
ns
> behind this decision. I thought it was for loadbalancing only - but now
> there is ZEO - so why using Apache or Squid?

I dont understand? ZEO doesnt provide load balancing,