On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
Hello, This is kind of a theorical question, but I though I'd ask before starting to code =) Basically I have a desktop app which I need to retrofit into a web-app. My idea is to cut it in a visual and a non-visual part and implement the visual part in HTML+JavaScript and keep the non-visual like it is now, in Pascal. So, the problem is that CGI apps are started for every request, correct?
Correct. There are techniques to avoid this: fastcgi, apache module, embedded server.
So how should I proceed to obtain a application which will keep running for the entire session of a user? I don't want to simply save session info because the application is rather large, there are lots of things going on and it would be much easier for my coding if I could keep the program running on the web server ... Any ideas?
If you really want the application running 100% of the time, there are only 2 options: - fastcgi with mod_fastcgi (NOT mod_fcgid) and ExternalFastCGIServer option. - Embedded server (i;e. the application acts as a webserver). Both ways are supported with fpWeb. I use fastcgi. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
