Working with FastCGI

[chorg]

Hello all,

My workplace has switched to FastCGI (from PHP) I am looking at the programming manuals for that, and I am noting that they are pretty old. Anyone have any tips/experiences to share about using FastCGI?

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[Zoogie]

I'm currently using FastCGI to implement part of our web application, mainly since mod_perl was not available on our first web host. We're planning to phase out the FastCGI scripts in favor of mod_perl very soon, however.

About the only tips I can offer are:
• Use the CGI::Fast module. It nicely takes care of some little quirks of FastCGI and provides a clean interface to CGI.pm.
• Be very sure to re-initialize all of your variables for every request. This is the same problem that many people have ben coding for mod_perl -- FastCGI scripts, like mod_perl scripts, are persistant, so modified variables may end up hanging around longer than you want them to.

- Zoogie

[suaveant]

We use it with some success. Biggest tip... always make sure you clean up your variables... very easy to build a memory leak into FCGI, since everything sticks around that is not scoped. Otherwise I can't think of anything specific, but would be glad to answers questions you may have.
                - Ant

[SamQi]

Something to consider would be suggesting mod_perl isntead of FastCGI. I know that my office has migrated away from FastCGI toward mod_perl, and from what I can tell it's because FastCGI isn't that specatcular.

That's my two cents.

Samuel Tesla

[chorg]

Sad to say - mod perl is not an option - usiing Zeus Web Server.... I've used (and loved) mod_perl before, but not this time.:(
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