On 2014-05-02, at 12:50 PM, Jon Jensen wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2014, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
CGI is old and should die though. Even if you are stuck with it, FastCGI is a more viable and faster way to run CGI scripts.
CGI is old, but it should not die! It's still useful in a few limited cases, such as very low RAM and/or rarely-run web apps.
I'm not suggesting that any normal web app use it, of course, but "should die" is a bit much. :)
Recently I actually found myself working with CGI scripts to write tests for an Apache module at $work. I kind of thought I was done with CGI, but in this particular case it came in very handy: https://github.com/maxmind/mod_maxminddb/tree/master/t/cgi-bin Olaf -- Olaf Alders olaf@wundersolutions.com http://www.wundersolutions.com http://twitter.com/wundercounter