Re: CGI and FastCGI SAPI

I think it would be a good idea to also include PHP-FPM in your investigation. On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Gelu Kelunden<gelu.kelu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to understand how difficult it is to create a new SAPI, so I > started to poke my nose inside the "cgi" SAPI source code. I saw that > "cgi_main.c" implements both the CGI and the FastCGI protocols and I kinda > got lost inside all those if-else lines (I tried to take out the FastCGI > code and failed miserably). I'm wondering if it's not better to have 2 > different SAPIs, one for CGI and for FastCGI. > > Advantages of this "split" would be: > - the source code will be more readable without all those if-else statements > - we would have 2 executables that do 2 different jobs, unlike now where > php-cgi does both; each executable could then be further optimized for the > exact job they are performing > > Disadvantages I see: > - maintaning 2 SAPI implementaion would require more work (since CGI and > FastCGI both share most of the SAPI code, any change would have to be > replicated twice) > - break backward compatibility (where php-cgi handles both CGI and FastCGI) > > Thank you for your time, > Gelu > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >