On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:42:51PM +1200, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:47, Rocco Caputo wrote:
> > Nice standard, if seemingly baroque.  Is it possible to write a
> > POE::Filter::FastCGI?  If so, you could probably use it just about
> > everywhere POE::Filter::Line fits.  That would let you write clients and
> > servers fairly trivially.
> 
> POE::Filter::FastCGI - I wrote that a while ago and gave up finishing
> it; I got kind of deadlocked when I considered that POE is kind of
> fundamentally incompatible with Tangram; with Tangram, dereferencing a
> reference may involve a database query, auto-vivifying a tied scalar
> which is distinctly not co-operatively multi-threading :-).

[...]

> I've attached what I've got as an idea; it doesn't work, but it's a
> substantial starting point for those interested.  I've implemented it
> from the Specs, not the C implementation.  I figure that the
> implementation would end up looking less like a hack that way.
> 
> I've implemented just the packet layer so far - no FastCGI session
> management or tracking yet.
> 
> Perhaps it was a little ambitious for a starting POE project ;-)

Thank you for sharing this.  I'm sure someone will find a use for it.

-- Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

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