Barnes, Fred (2003) occwserv: An occam Web-Server. In: Communicating Process Architectures 2003, SEP 07-10, 2003 , UNIV Twente, Enschde, Nederlands.
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Abstract
This paper presents `occwserv', the occam web-server. This is a highly concurrent web-server, written in the occam multi-processing language, that supports the majority of the HTTP/1.1 protocol. Dynamic process and channel creation mechanisms are used to create scalable `server-farms', each responsible for a particular web-server function -- for example, reading client requests or running CGI processes. The design of the web-server is presented, along with some early performance benchmark results. Although performance may appear a limiting factor (when compared to other web-servers such as Apache), much is gained from the simplicity and security of occam. Extending the web-server with new functionality, for example, is intuitive and largely trivial -- with the guarantees that code is free from race-hazard and aliasing errors. An experimental non-standard addition, the OGI (occam Gateway Interface), is also presented. This provides a mechanism for dynamically loading and attaching pre-compiled occam processes to the running web-server, that can then handle one or multiple client connections. A text-based style adventure game is examined briefly, that allows multiple clients to interact within a `multi-user dungeon' (MUD) style environment.
| Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (UNSPECIFIED) |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | occam web-server concurrency |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing |
| Depositing User: | Mark Wheadon |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2008 18:00 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2012 13:47 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/13916 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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