Re: CGI scripts under EROS Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:55:25 +0100

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
>
> > > The server needs to pick up the TCP connection once the request is over,
> > > in order to handle the next pipelined request. Is that a problem?
> >
> > Oh yeah, and in future versions of HTTP it may be that the TCP
> > connection will need multiplexing...
>
> Can you expand on this? Multiplexing the TCP connection implies some
> very serious authentication issues. It's not clear that TCP is what
> you want if you really want to do this.

Nah - the multiplex is to a single user, just handling multiple URLs at the same time.

Cheers,

Ben.

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