RE: Cgicc with FastCGI?

[Volker Wysk]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Stephen F. Booth wrote:

> >    Is that possible using Cgicc and Fastcgi together?  If so, how?
>
> I've been thinking this one over, and I'm not sure that it makes sense to
> try and integrate cgicc and FastCGI.  I'm not saying that the two don't work
> together, but here is my reasoning:  cgicc uses a transaction-based model,
> like the http protocol.  It processes/parses incoming data from the server
> and presents it to the programmer in a more user-friendly form.  I looked
> through the library code, and didn't really see much that I felt could be
> abstracted out into one-time initialization code that FastCGI could use.
> For certain CGI applications (database-driven) it makes sense to perform
> one-time initialization, but I think that this is beyond the scope of the
> library.  Basically all the cgicc data structures have to be created from
> scratch for each request.

If you want to use FastCGI for some reasons, it makes perfect sense to
additionally use a CGI library like cgicc to do the form data parsing, and
for HTML generation.

V.W.