[Toolserver-l] change of regular expression behaviour in rewrite scripts

[Platonides]

River Tarnell wrote:
> Martin Peeks:
>> Just out of curiosity, why does the toolserver use a webserver which so
>> few will be familiar with, rather than apache/etc?
> 
> we previously used Apache + mod_suphp, until CGI PHP became too slow.
> we explored several solutions and eventually settled on ZWS.
> 
> in general users do not deal much with the web server directly; the main
> user-visible change was from mod_rewrite to rewrite.script.  most users
> do not use rewrite rules, so we considered the inconvenience was
> acceptable.
> 
> 	- river.

I understand the problem was the process creation needed by mod_suphp
(that's also why the switchserver was tried).
How does Zeus run the scripts as different users? I thought Zeus loaded
php as isapi.