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<p>Yeah I would think you wouldn't call exit(). That would cause
the process to die and it would need to be forked again, being
nearly as inefficient as traditional CGI.</p>
<p>It sounds like your application might need to be redesigned a bit
if calling exit() or using a goto is deemed a necessity. In
Python/WSGI a request just triggers a function call, which exits
normally. Anything more complex than that would seem awkward.<br>
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Thanks, Micah. That’s what I was thinking. There’s apparently
something like Python’s WSGI called PSGI, but so far I’ve found it
easier to figure out how to implement FastCGI — it’s dead simple
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<div class="">One thing I’ve found conflicting info on that maybe
you have a thought on, since it applies across languages, I
believe: some people say you should never call exit() on a
script being run through FastCGI. Others say it doesn’t matter.
My code uses exit in a lot of places where it is important to
make sure nothing keeps executing, but there’s not a fatal
error. I’ve mostly used it so that I don’t accidentally overlook
something continuing on and cause a security hole. However, I’m
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<div class="">I found one suggestion of using GOTO (which I’ve not
used since I played with Basic so many years ago) to go to an
empty block of code beyond all the other code as a replacement
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<p class="">No recent Perl experience, but I do know
that php-fpm (the FastCGI version of PHP) is vastly
preferable to mod_php for several reasons.</p>
<p class="">Python applications commonly use WSGI,
which is its own protocol but similar.</p>
<p class="">Basically IMHO that or something like it
is the only sane way to run web applications.
Old-school CGI should pretty much never be used, and
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Hey, everyone,
<div class="">Does anyone on here have insight into
using FastCGI to speed up Perl execution? I’ve
been playing with it the last week and I am amazed
at the results, but FastCGI seems to be mostly
dormant. My CMS goes from taking around 600ms to
fulfill a request to as low as 180ms (all but as
fast as a static page). So far as I can tell, it
has several advantages over mod_perl, most
importantly that it works with Suexec to keep
scripts from running with privileges beyond the
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<div class="">On the other hand, the FCGI module for
Perl seems to have broken UTF-8 support, which is
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