scgi

What's the difference between scgi and wsgi?

What's the difference between these two? Which is better/faster/reliable? ...

FastCGI on port vs. on socket

I was setting up Django on Cherokee today (using SCGI), and I noticed that the Django docs say that you can use either a host/port combination or a socket for communication between the webserver and Django. The only thing they have to say on the matter is What you choose is a manner of preference; a TCP socket is usually easier due ...

HTTP Proxy/FastCGI/SCGI not closing connection when client disconnected - bug or feature?

I'm working on Comet support for CppCMS framework via long XMLHttpRequest polls. In many cases, such request is closed by client before any response from server was given -- for example the page is closed, user moves to other page or it is just refeshed. At the server side I expect that I would recieve the notification that connection i...

Problem deploying Django-Mingus with Flup and Cherokee. Strange admin behaviour.

I have a django-mingus blog running perfectly fine with the integrated development web server of django. It's installed in a virtualenv. Once deployed using the django app wizard of cherokee 0.99.42 the admin pannel is displaying a strange behaviour. Sometimes all apps are displayed in the admin pannel sometime only a subset of the apps...

WebSocket and CGI/FastCGI/SCGI protocols

Hello, I'm looking for resources about interaction between client side web socket, web server and real application backend that works behind CGI, FastCGI or SCGI protocols. It seems that this is impossible at this point as: Request length is specifically defined in CONTENT_LENGTH variable so I can't expect that the data would continue...

SCGI scripting engine servers? (C#, Java, PHP)

Hi, I am looking for scripting engines that provide an SCGI server: a server like Apache receives HTTP requests and sends them to the backend scripting engine, the scripting engine parses and process the SCGI request and sends the reply to Apache, Apache sends the reply to the client. I've an interest in using C#, Java and PHP (any ...