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[!Cheyenne] Discussions about the Cheyenne Web Server

Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1601x2]
Yep, I see it too
Paris, we've found a bug!
Graham
10-Jun-2007
[1603]
She's in Jail
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1604]
Where is url-encode defined?
Oldes
10-Jun-2007
[1605x3]
libs/html.r
and it looks strange... I'm not sure if it's save to use just to 
file!
safe
Graham
10-Jun-2007
[1608x3]
ahh.. that is the problem
I replaced url-encode with my own function, and it works fine now.
sweet
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1611x2]
Not sure. Change this inthe RSP and see what happens: print rejoin 
[ "Dehex: " dehex head test <br/> ]
Graham: submit your own function here so Doc can include that in 
the next release (and we all to in the meantime :-)
Graham
10-Jun-2007
[1613x2]
this is straight from the cookies-client.r
url-encode: func [
    {URL-encode a string}
    data "String to encode"
    /local new-data
][
    new-data: make string! ""
    normal-char: charset [
        #"A" - #"Z" #"a" - #"z"
        #"@" #"." #"*" #"-" #"_"
        #"0" - #"9"
    ]
    if not string? data [return new-data]
    forall data [
        append new-data either find normal-char first data [
            first data
        ][

            rejoin ["%" to-string skip tail (to-hex to-integer first data) -2]
        ]
    ]
    new-data
]
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1615]
Thanks Graham, I'll look at your code and fix my url-encode function 
asap.
Graham
10-Jun-2007
[1616]
I think tomc wrote the original version about 1999 or so !
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1617]
Proven technology ;-)
Oldes
10-Jun-2007
[1618]
I use:
url-encode: func [
    "URL-encode a string" 
    data "String to encode" 
    /local new-data
][
    new-data: make string! "" 
    normal-char: charset [
        #"A" - #"Z" #"a" - #"z" 
        #"@" #"." #"*" #"-" #"_" 
        #"0" - #"9"
    ] 
    if not any [string? data binary? data] [return data] 
    parse/all data [any[
    	  copy tmp some normal-char (insert tail new-data tmp)

     | copy tmp some #" " (insert/dup tail new-data #"+" length? tmp)
    	| copy tmp 1 skip (

      insert tail new-data rejoin ["%" as-string skip tail (to-hex to integer! 
      to char! tmp) -2]
    	)
	]]
    new-data
]
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1619]
I think Will's mod-rewrite does what I want. Perhaps I can test and 
document it :-)
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1620]
Marteen, about your questions, there's currently several web sites 
running with several months uptime. Cheyenne is quite resistant to 
all classic web attacks (tested with the Nikto package). About speed 
and performances, I've done a few test a year ago but a lot of things 
changed since, so I need to do some new benchmarking (anyone tried 
with Apache's ab tool ?)
Oldes
10-Jun-2007
[1621]
but it could be modified not to create new data but rather modify 
the existing value.
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1622]
Thanks. I suspect 100+ reqs/sec should be easily doable
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1623x2]
Oldes, thanks, I've made a minimal url-encode function (due to lack 
of time). I'll wrote a better one for the next release. Not sure 
what approach is faster, changing the argument series or building 
a new one...will test that.
Marteen: for static 1ko files on a recent hardware, it should be 
around  500+ req/s.
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1625]
I am thinking of RSP pages.
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1626]
raw testing locally gives me : 188 req/s on /show.rsp
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1627x2]
:-)
That's what Iw anted to know: in the 10s-100s/sec
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1629x2]
AMD 3500+ (not the latest hardware)
There's still space for optimization...and R3 will make it run even 
faster ;-)
Oldes
10-Jun-2007
[1631]
I need 3s to get 100 requests on show.rsp... but it's because of 
my FW
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1632x4]
I saw wil reported 200 reqs/sec with an Ajax/DB (mysql) app on a 
dualcore
Those are good numbers. because data manipulation with your mysql:// 
is so much easier I think this will be much faster in development, 
deployment than most other web solutions. And performance is good 
enough.
Do you provide commercial support on Cheyenne?
Wrt session support: nothing stops me (or anyone else) to create 
a db-session lib that you can use from RSPs. The RSP model is inherently 
extensible.
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1636]
Sure, you can bypass the internal session engine and use your own 
;-). Commercial support on Cheyenne, yes, that's a service we're 
already offering.
Maarten
10-Jun-2007
[1637x2]
OK, I'll try to add some code that works database driven and mail 
to you.
Wrt  commercial support: what are the prices and what is the service 
(perhaps better to discuss this privately unless you can make a marketing 
statement ;-)
Dockimbel
10-Jun-2007
[1639]
I'll contact you privately tomorrow about that.
Maxim
11-Jun-2007
[1640x5]
its now official, I am starting work on the most significant (web 
side) module for cheyenne IMO.   remark engine integration   :-)
I don't know how rsp fits into the picture, but once I have something 
of a remark loadable lib working, I'll try to get others to better 
define how to merge rsp and remark (mainly what rsp can add to remark... 
things like session control maybe).  maybe rsp doesn't even become 
relevant... more details to come as I work out all the parts of this 
endeavor.  btw, this effort is brought up by need... not just hobby 
fun.
btw I use the url encode from graham and it works very well.
I also did an html-encode to allow easier form interaction... does 
anyone find a use for that?
(anyone *else*)
btiffin
11-Jun-2007
[1645]
I'll be in like Flint...
Maxim
11-Jun-2007
[1646x2]
btw... your cheyenne home page should be updated... the main link 
is wayyy old.
that was a message for doc... and sorry if reading it , it sounds 
like an order.. <phew> sooo not intentional...  the download link 
I mean, on the main cheyenne root page... you really should update 
that root page its seems to be like 6 months old now!
Dockimbel
12-Jun-2007
[1648x3]
Max: glad to see you using Cheyenne too. About the home page, yes, 
it's still the old one, that's intentionnal for a couple more weeks, 
I want to reach a 1.0 beta first before putting the new Cheyenne 
out in the wild (that's why I keep the current releases almost confidential). 
Currently I want to focus on development and documentation, and only 
support a small group of early adopters (that's you guys ;-)).
A precision about modules : modules are executed in Cheyenne's main 
process (same process as UniServe and HTTPd service), so modules 
execution has a direct impact on Cheyenne performances. In order 
to obtain the best performances and best scalability, you should 
implement also what is currentle called in UniServe : a "handler". 
A handler in UniServe's context is a module executed in a background 
process, so it's not blocking Cheyenne's main process. A good approach 
might be to implement a module first, then export some of the most 
CPU intensive work in a external bg handler. That's the way CGI and 
RSP support is implemented. For a good example, see %mod-action.r 
and %handlers/CGI.r
If some of you needs to implement handlers now, just ping me here, 
and I'll write some preliminary docs on bg tasks API (quite short 
and simple in fact).