[Lazarus] html server doubts
duilio foschi
octopushole at gmail.com
Mon Mar 13 22:33:51 CET 2023
I wrote a BE server expanding the TTestHTTPServer I found in the samples.
Each inbound call is handled by (common) code that sets a number of
global variables like sessionID, url, method etc.
Then the call call goes thru the Match function of several specialized
components. When the Match function of component X returns TRUE, this
component is the one that does the rest of processing:, i.e. read the
incoming payload (in case of a POST), read the inline parameters (in
case of a GET), query the DB, write a result etc
Now I wonder if this working is safe for a server that handles
multiple calls. I mean: the inbound calls are produced by visitors of
a website.
Say a call produced by visitor A comes in at time T1 and immediately
after it (at time T2) a call produced by visitor B reaches the server,
the global variables will be rewritten possibly before the first
processing is completed, what could cause havoc.
Shouldn't the memory used for each call be different? Shouldn't I use threads?
Or - due to some magics of class TFPHTTPServer - is the memory
_already_ different at each new call?
I hope I did not say something too stupid...
Peppe Polpo
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