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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:29:10 -0500
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To: Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] The built-in PHP web server is very cool!
From: xwisdom@gmail.com (Raymond Irving)

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Hi Patrick,

Thanks for the feedback. I see your point and share some of your concerns.

*> It also cannot handle more than one request at a time...*

In my case a standalone web app will only be deployed on a single computer
and will only be used by one user at a time, so concurrency should not be a
problem. No other user will be able to access the application from the
network. These are basically single user  web-desktop applications.


On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Patrick ALLAERT <patrickallaert@php.net>wrote:

> 2012/12/19 Raymond Irving <xwisdom@gmail.com>:
> > Hi William,
> >
> > Why not?
>
> Thank you for the kind words Raymond (which should be addressed to
> Moriyoshi Koizumi), but as mentioned on:
> http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php:
> * It has never been created for anything else than development purpose
> only.
> * It also cannot handle more than one request at a time, meaning that
> if your application has several assets (images, js files, css
> files,...) all of them will be downloaded sequentially. Situation that
> is even worse if you have more than one concurrent user.
> * When it starts, it mentions: "Development Server started", please,
> let me kindly emphasize the first word once more.
>
> Criticisms have been raised about including that feature to the core
> of PHP for the exact reason that it might be used as a simpler
> alternative to real web servers. To avoid that, some stress has been
> put on documentation to insist on not using it for anything else than
> development.
>
> There is also lot of programs bundling PHP, a web server and a
> database server that are easy to use and configure.
> Please, don't let room to bad practices which might end up damaging
> PHP's reputation.
>
> @Moriyoshi: Maybe you have more arguments to add?
>
> Maybe we should list the reasons not to use it on anything else than
> development on http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php
> ?
>
> Regards,
> Patrick
>

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