Re: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 draft available

Ben Laurie writes:
 > It is possible, but not particularly efficient or portable. ISTR one of
 > the very first things Apache did was to get rid of that nonsense.

More precisely, Apache chose not to adopt it.  NCSA 1.4 used an
fd-passing scheme in order to handle accepts on its persistent child
processes; the parent server accepted connections, and then fd-passed
them to the children.  When we were trying to figure out what to do
about producing a non-fork-per-request version of Apache, Rob Hartill
did some experiments which pretty quickly showed that a simpler
approach could yield results at least as good.  

If you really need fd-passing behavior, there's sample code in one of
Stevens' books ("Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment"), but
it's messy; IIRC, there are multiple variants to deal with the
variety of interfaces in different Unix variants.  

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