OpenEuphoria

RE: where to place a server

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> May 06, 2001
• 478 views

On 6 May 2001, at 17:48, sephiroth _ wrote:


 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > Wouldn't multiple server *processes* do the job
> > in most cases? Each process could create its
> 
> i suppose so. you could just fork() and go back to listening for 
> connections, i guess.

Don't even need to do that. Like Rob said, if we could async with winsock 
and get events triggered from it or the wininet.dll, handling the net would be 
as easy as in mirc. The following is a snip of mirc code:

<mirc code>
on 1:SOCKREAD:Newsspider*: { 
  if ( %Newsspidercom.accept == yes ) {
    :nextread 
    sockread -f %Newsspider.temp 
    aline -p @ [ $+ [ $sockname ] ] %Newsspider.temp 
   

.timer. [ $+ [ $sockname ] ] 1 20 if ( $!line( @ [ $+ [ $sockname ] ]  ,0)
      <
3 ) { /window -c @ [ $+ [ $sockname ] ] }

) {
      if ( %newspider.wrotewindow.  [ $+ [ %sockname ] ] == $null ) {
            /window -c @ [ $+ [ %sockname ] ]
      }
    }

<snip>
</mirc code>

It is triggered on incoming data on any port wildmatching the name 
Newsspider* (i used index numbers, incremented per url), then munges the 
incoming data and sends it to the window of the same name. It doesn't 
matter how many such urls i have open on that port, when the event is 
triggered, the assigned name of that connection is available, and i tag the 
data by the name i assigned it. doesn't even matter if the data arrived mixed 
with data from another url, the event processes one url until no more data of 
that name on that port, then it ends, and get triggered by the next data 
(prolly from another url, with a different name). The timer has the same 
name, and is reset at each incoming data event, to test the specs of the 
window and close it if there isn't anything relavant to me in it. I wrote that 
mirc code before i heard of Eu, and it's run fine for years,,, i am having 
trouble porting it to Eu tho.

Kat