[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:15:35 -0500 
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 00:08, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> Hang-on.  Apache isn't the target.  Mailman's UI is a CGI app.  As
>> such it works with any web server that supports CGI-bin, which pretty
>> much means any web server with no exceptions.  That's a pretty large
>> gain, especially in the novice admin or simple deployment case
>> territory.

> Sure, but I suspect that plumbing Mailman out to http will be just a
> proxy rule away from integrating with an existing web server.  That's
> not without its headaches too, but should be as widely supported.

Considerably more web servers support CGI-bin than support proxy rules.

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