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 [email protected] http://www.wundersolutions.com http://twitter.com/wundercounter _______________________________________________ dancer-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.preshweb.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dancer-users
