Re: CGI as go-between

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Justin, I'm pleased that HTTPAPI worked. However, it seems counter
intuitive that it would perform better than a reverse proxy. I don't get
that part. Wouldn't the reverse proxy simply forward the request to the
web-service, then funnel back the response?



On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Works like a champ!  The service run on my IBMi, so I also tried a reverse
> proxy via Apache.  That worked, but I wasn't happy with the idea of having
> to create an Apache directive for every service.  I was pleasantly
> surprised that using HTTPAPI in my CGI app was faster (per Chrome Developer
> Tools) than the reverse proxy.
>
> Thanks again
>
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