) 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: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 |
Discussion edit
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: [1]ZLM 2008-12-28: Microsoft released FastCGI extensions for IIS 6 and 7. These can be downloaded from http://www.iis.net/ .See also edit
- [Apache Toolbox]
- PDQI FastCGI (1998)
