I realize the loss of async in the overall view and that it really isn't
ideal, but I'm just wanting to experiment a bit.  I also realize it would
be like running PHP in CGI mode, you loose a lot, but at least you can play
with the language a bit in a web environment :)

 - Jeremy

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Brett Ritter <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Jeremy Darling
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I know you can build c/c++ applications as a CGI app, but I just can't
> seem
> > to figure out how to build node as a CGI app.  Anyone had any real luck
> with
> > this or know where to get the binaries (Linux hosting of course)?
>
> I'm a little confused...basic CGI just involves calling the program.
> So to make a node.js program usable as a CGI would be a matter of
> writing a node.js program that output HTML to STDIN, and having a
> shebang line at the top to call the node interpreter (which is why
> node has to be on the server).  It seems this is not what you're
> looking for...can you explain in more detail?
>
> (I'll assume you realize that the only benefit to calling node in this
> way is writing in javascript - you'd be losing most of the async
> benefits)
>
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