Beefy Boxes and Bandwidth Generously Provided by pair Networks
Perl: the Markov chain saw
 
PerlMonks  

Re: cgi and asp

by ajt (Prior)
on Feb 21, 2005 at 13:36 UTC ( [id://433043]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to cgi and asp

CGI works on most web servers, where it forks an environment to run the process. This gives you a robust solution, poor scripts can't pollute the web server, or each other, however each fork takes CPU cycles and memory, so CGI is slow.

In Process technologies like mod_Perl or ASP load the interpreter into the webserver on start up and all the scripts are compiled into the server. This avoids the overhead of forking each time a request comes in, so it's much faster, but any leak in your code, and the leak goes into the whole process - you MUST write your code tight to avoid any problem.

ASP is a proprietary MS technology and only runs on IIS, which isn't very stable, secure and only has 25% of the market. There are ways to run ASP via emulation in mod_Perl - it's supposed to be faster than MS's ASP, but it's not 100% compatible.

Most of the time you can get by, by writing your code for CGI, it's easier to test and develop on, and it's robust so unless you have a lot of traffic it's usually good enough.

See also:


--
ajt

Log In?
Username:
Password:

What's my password?
Create A New User
Domain Nodelet?
Node Status?
node history
Node Type: note [id://433043]
help
Chatterbox?
and the web crawler heard nothing...

How do I use this?Last hourOther CB clients
Other Users?
Others perusing the Monastery: (5)
As of 2024-03-19 03:30 GMT
Sections?
Information?
Find Nodes?
Leftovers?
    Voting Booth?

    No recent polls found