- From: Kerry DeZell <kdezell@bluemountain.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:34:07 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-lib@w3.org
Hello, My name is Kerry and I work for Blue Mountain Arts (the electronic greeting card website). We are doing more and more programattic website to website communication as we integrate new attachments and functionality into our cards. Unfortunately, to date this has been done in a piecemeal fashion but I would like to consolidate using a single library (either public domain such as libwww, custom built, or purchased if necessary). Since the majority of our CGI's are written in C and I am not big on reinventing the wheel, I am interested in the C version of libwww. As we begin to add more attachments to our cards that require purchases, i.e. chocolates, our need for SSL support is also growing. I have obtained the latest versions of libwww and open SSL and have been playing with some simple applications. So far the non-SSL applications have been easy to use and haven behaved as expected. I was also able to create a simple SSL application as well. However, when I started doing multiple https requests, the application core dumps deep in the SSL write functionality (in perusing mail lists this morning it looks like this may have been found by others as well and fixed already). This made me wonder how stable the SSL baseline is and whether anyone is using it and libww extensively (e-groups mail list shows only 22 members). I would also be interested in knowing if anyone has any benchmarks on the speed and stability of w3c as a whole. (i.e. has it been checked for memory leaks, profiled for inefficient code, how often are common interfaces changed/deprecated etc.) Lib w3c seems like a pretty good framework but it is unclear from the website how many users are actually using it, whether any of these uses are for other than experimental purposes or in house tools, or how actively the baseline is being maintained (most of the CVS activity seems to be months old and the last news item on the website is a year old though the SSL fix seemed to happen fairly quickly once noticed). Before I recommend that Blue Mountain use this technology I'd like to get a better feel for how the library is being used, if the SSL portion is being used by anyone for actual e-commerce implementatinos, and what people think of C libwww and its SSL interface. I would also be interested in knowing if anyone is actively using the XML parsing portion of the library as more of our interfaces to other websites seem to be headed in that direction. Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated. If we do decide to use the technology we may be able to assist in furthering the product. Thanks Kerry DeZell Blue Mountain Arts
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