CGI support

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 04:57:49PM +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:

> Wayne E. Seguin ha scritto:
> >On Jun 06, 2007, at 08:55 , Manlio Perillo wrote:
> >>Hi.
> >>
> >>In the wiki it is explained that CGI is not supported because is is 
> >>slow and not scalable.
> >>
> >>This is true, however this should not be a problem for nginx since 
> >>process can be handled asyncronously.
> >>
> >>CGI is a standard, and many web scripts only support CGI.
> >>
> >>Thanks  Manlio Perillo
> >
> >Run one or more servers that do support the cgi and proxy to them.
> >
> 
> Having to run another server is what I want to avoid.

Implementing CGI support requires:

1) process manager, that will spawn to run CGIs (spawning usual workers
   is not effective: they may be huge, they may have many open files that
   should be FD_CLOEXEC'ed, etc),

2) ngx_http_cgi_module.

It may take week of thinking and about 40 hours of coding.
THe thinking is easy for me: I can think 12 hours and more per day,
but productive coding is very hard. I simply have no many productive hours.

I have too many things to implement and CGI has the lowest priority of them
and I do not want to spend productive hours for it.


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Igor Sysoev
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