'''FastCGI''' ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070716232258/http://fastcgi.com:80%|%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.
** Tcl packages **
*** FastCGI for Tcl (C extension) ***
&| What | '''FastCGI for Tcl''' |&
&| Where | https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl-fastcgi/ <<br>> `cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/tcl-fastcgi co -P tcl-fastcgi` |&
&| Description | A C [extension] for the Tcl interpreter that implement the FastCGI protocol. Works under Windows as well as *nix. |&
&| Requirements | Tcl 8.3 |&
&| Updated | 2013-04-17 |&
&| Authors | [Tom Poindexter], Christoph Bauer |&
*** Fcgi.tcl (pure Tcl) ***
&| What | '''Fcgi.tcl''' |&
&| Where | https://github.com/mpcjanssen/tcl-fcgi |&
&| Description | A fork of the pure Tcl implementation of FastCGI that used to be part of Tom Poindexter's project. |&
&| Requirements | Tcl 8.0 (the library itself), Tcl 8.65 (examples) |&
&| Updated | 2021-04 |&
&| Authors | [Tom Poindexter]; modifications by [dbohdan] |&
*** tclfcgi (C extension) ***
&| What | '''tclfcgi''' |&
&| Where | https://github.com/jdc8/tclfcgi |&
&| Description | A Tcl wrapper for the FastCGI C library. |&
&| Requirements | Tcl 8.6, [Critcl] 3 |&&| Updated | 2013-02-04 |&
&| Authors | [Jos Decoster] |&
*** tcl-xcgi (pure Tcl) ***
&| What | '''tcl-xcgi''' |&
&| Where | https://github.com/noyesno/tcl-xcgi |&
&| Description | Implements [CGI], FastCGI, [SCGI]. |&
&| Requirements | Tcl 8.5? |&&| Updated | 2021-01 |&
&| Authors | Sean Zhang |&
** Discussion **
[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: [http://kasparov.skife.org/blog/src/apache_22_fcgi.html]
[ZLM] 2008-12-28: Microsoft released FastCGI extensions for IIS 6 and 7. These can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/ .
** See also ** * [https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.5555/374794.374801%|%Apache Toolbox] (now defunct)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100623033957/http://pdqi.com/w/pw/pdqi/THT/FastCGI%|%PDQI FastCGI] (1998)
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