[Catalyst] Self restarting test server for Win32!

[Sebastian Riedel]

Am 08.11.2005 um 16:55 schrieb Sascha Kiefer:

> Will Hawes schrieb:
>
>> Attached are patches to the latest (as of yesterday)  
>> Catalyst::Engine::HTTP and Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Restarter to  
>> implement what is hopefully a cross-platform compatible, self- 
>> restarting test server.
>>
>> It uses sockets and should work on any system that supports them.  
>> As far as I am aware that should cover most (all?) Unix  
>> derivatives and any Windows from 2000 onwards. Verified on Win2K3,  
>> FreeBSD 5.4 and Suse Linux 10.0.
>>
>> This approach allows for a more graceful shutdown of the server -  
>> it doesn't kill() anything, ensuring that all ports can be  
>> released properly.
>>
>> I'd appreciate some testing and feedback. Note that you may need  
>> to open port 3001 if you are running a firewall on your machine -  
>> this is currently hard coded in the patch but can be changed later  
>> if all works as intended.
>>
>> wh
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> Hi.
> good job but i don't like your approach! Why? Well, i have three  
> reasons.
> 1. the port (3001) is not configurable (yet)
> 2. anybody could send "1" to port 3001; you should check whether or  
> not the ip comes from an allowed ip-endpoint using a mask := (ip &  
> mask) == client-ip (may require more configuration)
> 3. it uses another TCP listen socket; why not using the HTTP listen  
> socket and sending a special HTTP command like KILL / HTTP/1.0 (or  
> CATALYST-KILL / HTTP/1.0)

I like the KILL idea!
But hurry if you want this included in 5.5, since we have a feature  
freeze tomorrow.


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sebastian