Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] Building a FastCGI-compliant HTTP server with cpp-netlib

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hey Paolo!

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Paolo Falcone <pfa...@fr...> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I would like to ask if cpp-netlib has enough facilities to build a
> FastCGI-compliant HTTP server that can talk HTTP/1.1 both at the
> front-end and back-end?

The FastCGI protocol is interesting to implement. It should be doable
by implementing the FastCGI protocol in a handler, which talks to
FastCGI providers.

> My day job's upcoming requirements aside, this
> will be a very nice to have server, essentially a better nginx (as it
> only talks HTTP/1.0 at the backend, ruling out its use as a front-end
> server to application servers like Tomcat/Glassfish), and will be very
> attractive also to users deploying web applications on memory-starved
> VPS's.
>

Maybe you need a reverse proxy? If that is the case I would say
cpp-netlib is more than capable of providing that.

For FastCGI, a fastcgi binding would be really nice to have. Maybe
others in the list have information on FastCGI to help implement that?
It would be really great to have in a contrib/ folder inside of
boost/network/ to include things like these.

Thanks for posting Paolo, I hope others in the list can chime in with
their thoughts.

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Dean Michael Berris
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