fastcgi, simply wrong

[Manlio Perillo]

Alexandre Girao ha scritto:
> Hi folks,
> 
>   i've just dedicated some hours upon the nginx behavior/source code
> (version 0.6.29, but also happens to 0.5.35)
>   towards fastcgi protocol and discovered that the requestId is fixed,
> it's simple always equal do 1, this break the
>   the concurrency completely (as i've proved easily) and it also
> causes early closed connections from the web
>   server/client became out-of-sync with the request state in correctly
> implemented fastcgi applications, not
>   trying to be unpleasant, but i think that saying that nginx supports
> fastcgi can do more harm than good to
>   the project..  passing by just to say this, hope you guys find a
> good solution, im out.
> 

Note that, as far as I know, Apache and Lighttpd *does* not supports 
multiplexing.

This is not only hard to implement, but it is also not well designed in 
FastCGI.


There are some comments here:
http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/web2/channel/fastcgi.py



> 
> 
> fastcgi is a good thing, see (and think) for yourself
> 

Well, not all people think that FastCGI is a good thing.

> - http://cryp.to/publications/fastcgi/
> - http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fastcgi-whitepaper/fastcgi.htm
> - http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html
> 


Manlio Perillo