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in reply to Re: More than mod_cgi less than mod_perl.
in thread More than mod_cgi less than mod_perl.

A possible way to do what you want may be to have a 'cgi-server' wrapped around all cgi-scripts, and have Apache pass all request to this other process.

This sounds very similar to fast-cgi. (Caveat: I've never used it, but I've heared good things about it.)

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