On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Flowering Weeds <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> >Not at all true any more. Modern Windows OS (Windows XP >> >and up ) systems allows (near 100) processes to use the same >> >IP / Port at the same time. >> > >> >In fact, even the Windows admin's automation tool, >> >powershell.exe, on the command line, can use the >> >same port that other Windows processes use! >> > >> >Web Servers >> >Web Services >> >Databases >> >Commamnd line processes >> > >> >All at the same time, on the same IP / Port! >> >> I think we're talking about two different things. >> >> You can't have say IIS and Apache listen on the same IP and the same port. >> > > Sure one could if ASF followed modern Windows > HTTP usage and used the http.sys object that > all these other Windows processes use!
Naturally, we should all look to Windows and MS in general for guidance on how to follow standards. That's how we end up with such beautiful pieces of software as Internet Explorer 6 which has lead to more web-developer suicides than anything else in history. Not to start a flame war, but Microsoft has a long and rich history of bastardizing specifications and standards, both out of ignorance and deliberate attempts to build monopolies on technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript, and even a little HTTP (and lets not forget Silverlight, and C#; while not technically violations of any specification, I think the argument could certainly be made that they were built for the sake of competing with existing standards). Opening up multiple services on a single IP-address/port combination seems to me to go against some of the key concepts of TCP and UDP. After all, that is what ports were originally intended for: correspondence to a particular service. Anyway, those are both of my pennies on the topic. Sounds like the OP was able to solve his problem, so that's good. -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://pgp.mit.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] " from the digest: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
