Date: 24 Jan 2002 13:30:41 -0000
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To: Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>, gopher@complete.org
From: Robert Hahn <rhahn@tenletters.com>
Subject: [gopher] Re: mime types
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Paul Lindner wrote:
> 
> Perhaps when I finish the apache 2.0 gopher server I can see about
> hitching these two together..

Paul, I don't know if you've done this already, but can you tell us a bit more about this project?  What I'm really curious about is the thinking behind creating a gopher plugin vs. using a standalone server.  What advantages do you see in such a design?  Please correct my impression: it seems like you're attaching a helium filled balloon to a rock - not in terms of speed concerns, but in terms of infrastructure.

I just had a wacky thought - unrelated to the previous paragraph. Many of you might have heard that some people have compiled a web server into the Linux kernel for some impressive speed gains... I wonder what compiling gopher into the linux kernel would be like. :) Anyone trying that? Betcha that would make slashdot... :)  A replacement for NFS, perhaps? hmm...

-rh