[Laszlo-dev] serverless operation

[Oliver Steele]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Eric Bloch wrote:

> Some questions/comments:
>
> <snip>
>> Note that it is logically possible for /proxied instance/ to make 
>> both proxied and unproxied requests. An /unproxied instance/ may only 
>> make unproxied requests, because by definition there is no 
>> server-side instance that could perform the proxying.
>
> I could see an odd case where you served up an instance via apache, 
> but had it communicate to a running LZServlet proxy for certain 
> runtime things.
> This doesn't seem critical.  But it would change some of the things 
> below wrt to what's possible and what's not.  Or were you just trying 
> to simplify here.

Right.  We could also document the protocols that the runtime uses to 
request server caching and acceptencodings, and that the LPS uses to to 
encode back-end headers in a form that is accessible to the runtime, 
but I would like to take these off the table for the initial 
implementation.

>
>> DR4. [I had something here about acceptencodings and cacheable that I 
>> don't have the heart to figure out again, but I think some of this 
>> stuff becomes optional.]
>
> In 2.2, proxied requests may optionally have their back-end response 
> encoded and available in the return dataset.  Unproxied requests would 
> not support this.
>
> Likewise, acceptencodings and cacheable attributes of the 
> dataset/datasource would be ignored by unproxied requests.  Perhaps it 
> should be a compiler/runtime warning/error if you try to use these on 
> an unproxied request.
>
>>
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