Hi Jeff,

On 31 March 2010 11:41, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Darren Garvey <darren.gar...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I've been trying out the latest mod_fcgid and having some good results;
> good
> > to see it back in apache-proper.
>
> FWLIW, it never was in "apache-proper" until now.  (ISTR seeing some
> discussion of mod_fastcgi in the project, but that was before my time
> here.)
>

You're right, it was only mod_fastcgi which used to be distributed with
httpd. I probably meant to say "good to see support back in apache".  ;)
Thanks for the effort Jeff.


>  > I can't remember now if mod_fcgid used to support external FastCGI
> daemons
> > or not, but mod_fastcgi did (via. FastCgiExternalServer IIRC).
>
> No; mod_fcgid only supports FastCGI app processes which it has spawned.
>

Ok. FWIW, I find external servers very useful for debugging.


>  > Does anyone know if there is any other way to communicate with mod_fcgid
> on
> > Windows besides anonymous pipes?
>
> There is not.
>

Is there any motivation to add to this? Does this mean that FcgidIPCDir has
no effect on Windows? This isn't mentioned in the docs.

I guess this means it's not possible to write a server-side library on
Windows that uses async I/O then.


>  > I'm trying to communicate using IO Completion Ports and async I/O (in
> C++
> > code) and getting stuck trying to figure out if it's possible. Reading
> > through the source for libfcgi isn't giving me a huge amount of hope...
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm a bit stuck even knowing what questions I need to ask
> > Google on this.
>
> No help here on that :(
>

Ok, thanks.

Cheers,
Darren

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