[Mono-devel-list] xsp future

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> Do xsp have https support?
> If not, is it planned?
> 
> Will xsp have an abillity to run more than one ASP.NET application in
> different virtual directories?
> 
> At now mod_mono is pretty unusable - it is very slow because it compiles
> aspx pages at every http query and much less stable than xsp.
> 
> Xsp works fine, but have very slow result delievering.
> 
> Working solution is to use apache for large statical content (images,
> etc.) and xsp for aspx pages itself while xsp and mod_mono are growing
> up.
> 
> But even if we'll have fine-working mod_mono at nearest future, xsp is
> very usable for developping local (or small network) web-based
> applications - it is small, simply configurable and simply distributable
> with such applications.

I believe it is worth to keep improving XSP for small sites, for
debugging, and even for bundling a small server with your application
(like Cassini is on Windows).

But we should not forget to improve and fix any problems that prevent
ASP.NET from running fine with Apache.

Miguel