'''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 **

&| What | FastCGI for Tcl |&
&| Where | https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl-fastcgi/ <<br>> `cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@a.cvs.sourceforge.net:/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 |&

&| What | tclfcgi |&
&| Where | https://github.com/jdc8/tclfcgi |&
&| Description | A Tcl wrapper for the FastCGI library |&
&| Requirements | Tcl 8.6, [Critcl] 3 |&
&| Updated | 2013-02-04 |&
&| Authors | [Jos Decoster] |&

   * https://github.com/nagarajanchinnasamy/tclfcgi
   * https://github.com/noyesno/tcl-xcgi


** 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 **
   * [Apache Toolbox]
   * [http://pdqi.com/w/pw/pdqi/THT/FastCGI%|%PDQI FastCGI] (1998)


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