03-21-2018, 04:13 PM
Hello,
It seems that Alexandre answered my question
By his answer I understand that if Intraweb is listening on port 80, it will block other applications from listening on port 80. I definately dont understand what IP has to do with this. In general, as I understand it (and I may be wrong) a webserver does not know which IP a request will be coming from so it listens on all IP on a certain port. I will need that behaviour.
Other Delphi webservers, like TMS sparkle, plug into Http.sys. Somehow, that allows it to only handle port 80 (from all IP addresses) for URLs that it cares about. If it does not care about the URL being requested, it just ignores it, and other services plugged into http.sys can handle the request. That way, you can have a lot of independent TMS Sparkle webservers all listening to port 80 and handling the requests that they care about.
I dont want to have to have my end users to configure IIS. That is why I want to use the standalone server. However, I want to have several applications web applications on the same computer. An intraweb app for the website, a TMS XData app for the REST services. Thus, I am trying to figure out a way to get them all to work together. If intraweb takes over port 80 exclusively, then this will be more difficult.
It seems that Alexandre answered my question
Quote:Also, a port is exclusive so IntraWeb will block any other applications from using that port to receive requests
By his answer I understand that if Intraweb is listening on port 80, it will block other applications from listening on port 80. I definately dont understand what IP has to do with this. In general, as I understand it (and I may be wrong) a webserver does not know which IP a request will be coming from so it listens on all IP on a certain port. I will need that behaviour.
Other Delphi webservers, like TMS sparkle, plug into Http.sys. Somehow, that allows it to only handle port 80 (from all IP addresses) for URLs that it cares about. If it does not care about the URL being requested, it just ignores it, and other services plugged into http.sys can handle the request. That way, you can have a lot of independent TMS Sparkle webservers all listening to port 80 and handling the requests that they care about.
I dont want to have to have my end users to configure IIS. That is why I want to use the standalone server. However, I want to have several applications web applications on the same computer. An intraweb app for the website, a TMS XData app for the REST services. Thus, I am trying to figure out a way to get them all to work together. If intraweb takes over port 80 exclusively, then this will be more difficult.