Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Why not TclHttpd which is lighter than OpenNSD?

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Posted by Don Baccus on
OpenNSD provides much more than a running Tcl interpreter.  It provides a rich API that's heavily used by the toolkit.  In order to use something like TclHttpd you'd have to replicate the nsd API, i.e. every procedure called "ns_something" used by OpenACS.

That's in essence what mod_aolserver for Apache does - it runs a Tcl interpreter and implements the API, which lets the ACS run under Apache.