Re: [open-cobol-list] Playing with OC and AJAX

[Jeffrey Chimene]

On 1/3/2012 11:57 AM, Michael Anderson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 06:30 -0700, Jeffrey Chimene wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with FastCGI, but if it's CGI, it can't maintain
> > state
> I'm not familiar with Websocket! I will look into it, hopefully it is
> closer to the standard for the web, THANKS!
>
> However, your statement above is not correct, the reason it is called
> FastCGI, is because it maintains a socket to a single process, and
> therefore does not need to be re-created for each CGI request.

Right, but that's on the server side. State must also be maintained on 
the client side, i.e. the browser has to know the status of the current 
comm. for this session with the server. FastCGI is "kind of like" 
MOD_PERL in the sense that the server-side process doesn't evaporate 
after the reply. That doesn't mean FastCGI keeps track of each session's 
comm. (I/O) state.

Anyway, I'm glad that websocket works for you.

Cheers,
jec
> It does
> require that you write your process to NOT "STOP RUN". It's been around
> since the mid 90's, and also requires building (configure/make/install),
> and some additional httpd configuration, installation of mod_fcgi.so,
> and so on....... much work to do! Maybe wedsocket is simpler, and common
> in todays www. Thank you so much for the info.
>
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> Mike.
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