[fpc-devel] Inter Process Communication

[Vincent Snijders]

Jason P Sage schreef:
> I used CGI for portability - but to counter the delay of loading
> involved CGI executables - I created a very thin CGI client (50k on
> Win32 - unfortunately - 250k+ on Linux - (something about the smart
> linking isn't as good on linux). 
> 

<snip fastcgi mentioned several times>

> My next two agendas are creating my own web server - possibly using the
> sockets unit if I can see a working demo that runs on both linux and
> win32. I'd prefer to the FPC RTL version "sockets"; second - I may go
> full bore FastCGI, which is very clear on how its supposed to work - but
> documentation is lacking for setting it up for non-php and non-ruby
> solutions (I'll figure it out eventually).
> 
> FastCGI seems the right way to go - but I've yet to get one of the
> FastCGI programs - like echo or threaded to actually return something in
> a browser after much configuration experiments.
> 
> Wish me well and thanx for your advice.

To give you a headstart, you might want to look at fphttpd. It is a side project of 
lNet (See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/lNet) and is a http server written by 
Micha Nelissen with fpc and supporting fastcgi.

Vincent