[pure-lang-users] FastCGI

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> I must admit that I don't know all that much about web programming, so I 
> have to ask what's the difference between the ordinary and the fast cgi 
> interface?

The FastCGI interface keeps the language processor running rather
than starting a new process for every incoming request, so it is
much more lightweight.  The web server talks with the processor
over a local domain socket.  (Unix) or named pipe (Windows; named
pipes in Windows are really sockets).  The wire protocol is at
http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html ; there are many
libraries.

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