[Zope] Optimisation fun and games

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Chris Withers wrote
> > with rewrite rules,
> such as?

Going back two years here, I can't recall the details, but I do remember
it sometimes "just didn't work" with the rewrite rules and basic auth
and sometimes even cookies). Getting it working on all the magic different
things we needed was a total PITA.

> > the poor error handling,  
> such as?

When the site behind was down, there was not a lot you could do about the
errors.

> > fastcgi is much much more robust for us.
> ...maybe meaning it was easier to set up _for you_. 

No, I said "robust". I also said "for us", yes. 

> Did you do a speed comparison? I would
> be interested if someoen had since it would be nice to know whether my 
> beliefs about FastCGI are justified...

No. I can't see that either FCGI or ProxyPass are going to be the 
bottleneck in any publishing situation. I have more than enough to 
do without benchmarking every single bit of the system :P

Anthony

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