FastCGI (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.
What | FastCGI for Tcl |
Where | https://sourceforge.net/p/tcl-fastcgi/ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[email protected]:/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 |
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: [L1 ]
ZLM 2008-12-28: Microsoft released FastCGI extensions for IIS 6 and 7. These can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/ .