Re: Why FastCGI?

Hello, To serve content from PHP by using HTTP in a professional way, there is a need http/2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540> + http/3 (quic <https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-http.html>), to implement it, an event handler/concurrency is needed, in the same way, the professional HTTP servers do as Nginx <https://www.nginx.com/blog/thread-pools-boost-performance-9x/#:~:text=In%20general%2C%20NGINX%20is%20an,system%20about%20what%20to%20do.>, Litespeed Web Server <https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-server/features/event-driven-architecture> or Cloudflare <https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-scaled-nginx-and-saved-the-world-54-years-every-day/> PHP natively has this support related to events/threads: Events <https://www.php.net/manual/en/event.examples.php#example-4709> / libeio <https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.eio.php> Parallel <https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.parallel-events.php> pthread <https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.pht.php> libev <https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.ev.php> Such extensions don't have an integrated HTTP/2 server, it why there are third party extensions with such support as: Swoole (HTTP/2 + Websocket) <https://github.com/swoole/swoole-src#mixed-server> Or Frameworks: amphp/http-server <https://github.com/amphp/http-server> It is the closest you can serve content from PHP to a browser by using HTTP/2, similar to the Node.js HTTP/3 server <https://www.nearform.com/blog/a-quic-update-for-node-js/> OR Node.js HTTP/2 server <https://nodejs.org/api/http2.html> But, I do not recommend serving HTTP content directly from PHP, the core PHP developers only have reached a dev HTTP server <https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php>, it's due to event/threads in PHP still not safe for enterprise, instead, the best connector so far isn't FPM, it is LSAPI <https://www.litespeedtech.com/open-source/litespeed-sapi/php> based on this benchmark <https://www.litespeedtech.com/benchmarks/php-hello-world> Disclaimer: I have no relation with any of the companies linked here. Regards, Jose Nobile On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 10:59 AM Gunter Grodotzki <gunter@grodotzki.com> wrote: > > FastCGI or something like that to execute the compiler. > > > > Yes exactly – “or something like that” is my question. Why FastCGI? > > > > This is especially given, that I see no other “modern” programming > language or framework going down that route. You do not _*need*_ FastCGI, > its just the _*current*_ choice of protocol for communications between > HTTP (Server) <> Script. > > > > Hope my questioning is a bit clearer now. Again: I know what FastCGI is > and what it does on a high-level. But would like to know why HTTP is not > being considered. > > > > Cheers, > > Gunter > > >