Re: [PEPr] Comment on Networking::Net_FastCGI

Hello, On Monday 27 October 2008 19:36:49 till wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Arnaud Le Blanc <lbarnaud@php.net> wrote: > > > > Arnaud Le Blanc (http://pear.php.net/user/lbarnaud2) has commented on the proposal for Networking::Net_FastCGI. > > > > Comment: > > > > Hello, > > > > The sources are available here: > > http://arnaud.lb.s3.amazonaws.com/Net_FastCGI.tgz > > I know I'm lazy - I meant a trac link or a Google Code/SF/Github project. ;-) > > > FastCGI is a protocol commonly used as an interface between an HTTP server > > and a web application, designed to be faster than CGI. See > > http://www.fastcgi.com/ for more details. > > > > My Net_FastCGI package proposal is a client for such applications, you can > > send requests to a FastCGI application and read/parse responses from the > > application. > > > > Ah, ok. Makes somewhat more sense when I read that. :-) > > I've only heard of FastCGI in the context of how you go about marrying > PHP and lighttpd or nginx. Apache has a mod_fastcgi too, which is a good solution to run PHP with a thread mpm. > What kind of FastCGI apps are there? I only > saw the servers on fastcgi.com, but no applications that you want to > interface. trac, for example, is one of the standalone apps that uses FastCGI. Arnaud