Paul wrote: > Looks like the FastCGI binaries are only available for Windows > versions. We'll be on Sun Solaris, but I can probably recompile the > source, if that doesn't cause the open-source police to come get me.
I'm afraid it's not as obvious how to do it as it is with mod_perl. You may need to ask on the mailing list. > I still think we're miscommunicating, though. We weren't even using > Apache::Registry; the CGI speed improvement of mod_perl is only of > incidental interest to us. The API hooks were what we were using. > FastCGI (as I understand it, e.g., from > http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fastcgi-whitepaper/fastcgi.htm ) > doesn't offer any API Everything offers an API. CGI is an API. If I understand correctly, you just want to write a custom access control thingy. FastCGI calls that an "authorizer" and it is documented in that whitepaper. - Perrin