Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Mike Warren]

Rob Scott <address@hidden> writes:

> 5)Apache.  Who knows we may even get sponsorship to set up our own
> server farm, we just dont know that yet.  If done in Perl, and
> mod_backhand, i dont think theres any finite limit on concurrent
> threads.  I definitely think we should minimise CLIENT side work.  I
> mean, us having servers can adapt, but i think we want to cater even
> for people using lynx on an old 386.  I cant see encarta doing that.

We could, at least initially, do no processing whatever on the server
side and leave it all up to clients to parse and display the
XML...That is, our tools for turning XML into HTML could run on the
client or at least on servers different from the ones actually hosting
the data.

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