The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers

The Common Gateway
Interface (CGI) is not scaling to meet the requirements of
today's dynamic, interactive webs. For this reason, multiple
vendors have proposed C callable APIs. These APIs allow authors to
alleviate the performance penalty of CGI, and allow tighter
integration of add-in modules. Unfortunately, this comes at the
price of complexity and portability.
This document describes a new model for extending WWW servers.
First, HTTP is captured using an interface
specification, which eliminates the ambiguities of
interpretating a standards-track document. This interface is then
implemented atop a particular httpd's API. Finally, all of this is
done using a standard distributed object model called ILU.
Digital Creations' work on our ILU
Requester reflects this design and shows its advantages.
This paper describes the ILU Requester.