Re: [Openinteract-dev] CGI::Fast vs FCGI

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Chris Winters wrote:
> Hey, if FastCGI works better with CGI::Fast I'm all for switching.  Are 
> there any other side effects? And is CGI::Fast the more commonly  used 
> interface? (I've never used FastCGI in production, so it's all a  shot 
> in the dark for me...)

I haven't used it in production either.. I'm just running my development 
box under FastCGI now since I'm experiencing somekind of a memory 
consuming loop when I stop my apache when it has served an OI2 request 
under mod_perl (Which then causes wild swapping of _everything_).

CGI::Fast seems to be older than FCGI and not updated in a while, but 
that doesn't necessarily make it outdated. Maybe the motivation behind 
FCGI has been jut to provide a version of FastCGI gateway which is 
independent of the CGI.pm module, which some people concider bloated.

So pretty blind shots for me also, but for my use it seems that 
CGI::Fast works better. I haven't seen any side effects yet except that 
is fixes the post parameter problem.

.. By the way I think CGI request doesn't mix url parameters with post 
parameters like Apache request does. They can be acquired from CGI 
object with url_param() just like post params are acquired using 
param(). It might be nice to add some kind of a separation for post and 
url params in OI2 also (I think this is already in JIRA by Teemu?) and 
make the behaviour consistent across different Requests. Maybe so that 
all the params are stuffed to $request->param but they are also 
ackquirable intependently with $request->url_param and 
$request->post_param ?

- Antti