From: Chilkat Software <support@...>
Date: 2006-11-08T13:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Why create web servers?


I don't think it was criticism on CatLady's part.  I think she's
just wondering how it could be that there's a market for such
a thing.  Like her, I would assume that not too many people
would even consider such a task.  The fact that WEBrick exists
implies that lots of people are interested in creating web servers,
and that's what spawned the question (that's my guess...)

-Matt


At 09:56 PM 11/7/2006, you wrote:


>On 06-11-07, at 22:26, CatLady [] wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Im just starting to get my feet wet with Ruby amd im having trouble
>>understanding why someone would want to implement there own web
>>server.
>>
>>I know theres a WEBrick object and a few others out there that
>>allow you
>>to create web servers with ease, but why would anyone want to do that
>>when theres stable and fully featured servers already out there?
>
>Why would you ever want to implement almost anything then? It's
>surely all been done before. Quite simply, either the existing
>products don't mesh well with peoples goals, they just want to learn
>how to build something like a web server, ease of integration into
>their application (though this kinda fits in with my first point), or
>hell, every now and then you need to just re-invent the wheel; if for
>no other reason than to kill some time.
>
>Surely, you've re-invented the wheel at some point in your life,
>don't be so quick to criticize.
>
>--
>Jeremy Tregunna
>jtregunna@blurgle.ca
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