Updated 2018-05-03 07:06:10 by dbohdan

FastCGI (website archive) is a language-independent protocol based on CGI. It improves performance (at the cost of isolation) by not creating a new process for every request. It competes with SCGI, which is more popular in Tcl-land.
What FastCGI for Tcl
Where https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl-fastcgi/
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tcl-fastcgi co -P tcl-fastcgi
Description An C extension for the Tcl interpreter that implement the FastCGI protocol. Works under Windows as well as *nix.
Updated 2013-04-17
Authors Tom Poindexter, Christoph Bauer

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RLH 10-18-2006: I read a couple things that indicated there is going to be a push to refine and enhance FastCGI and include it with Apache. The idea is to get away from the mod_<language> and have FastCGI give everyone a robust even playing field. We shall see. Here is a link to the info: [1]

ZLM 2008-12-28: Microsoft released FastCGI extensions for IIS 6 and 7. These can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/ .

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