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About FastCGI original official site

Since fastcgi.com is not available anymore (last backup on wayback machine are at 20/03/2016), I (mcarbonneaux) created this repository and linked website fastcgi-archives.github.io to host the FastCGI information backup.

Contents of this site

This repository contains the backup of the original site :

This repository also contains the backup the original site source code :

This is not an official repository nor is it linked in any way to the original fastcgi.com website and FastCGI copyright owners.

The FastCGI Specification is intellectual property of Open Market Inc. Copyright © 1996 Open Market, Inc. 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 U.S.A. Tel: 617-621-9500 Fax: 617-621-1703 URL: http://www.openmarket.com/

About original maintainers and autor at FastCGI.com

Based on last backup on wayback machine at 13/03/2016:

About FastCGI protocol

FastCGI is simple because it is actually CGI with only a few extensions.

Not only does FastCGI restore the strengths of CGI, it also adds two new benefits:

Development on FastCGI:

There is not much development on FastCGI because it is a very stable protocol / application.

But, yes, we are here…

FastCGI Licence

New FAQ

FAQ

Frequently asked questions, examples and explanations.

FastCGI White Paper

Describes the motivation for FastCGI, the FastCGI interface, FastCGI application roles, the FastCGI application library, and FastCGI performance.

Understanding FastCGI Application Performance

Why FastCGI applications often run faster than applications coded directly to Web server APIs.

FastCGI Developer’ Kit

How to configure and build the kit, and write applications using the FastCGI application libraries.

FastCGI Programmer’ Guide

Programmer-oriented documentation for developers of FastCGI applications. The content overlaps considerably with the Developer’s Kit document.

FastCGI Specification

Defines the interface between a FastCGI application and the Web server.

FastCGI - A High-Performance Gateway Interface

Position paper presented at the workshop “Programming the Web – a search for APIs”, Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, 6 May 1996, Paris, France.

Rob’s Open Source ‘99 Presentations

Two FastCGI related presentations given at O’reilly’s Open Source ‘99 Conference in Monterey, CA.

From the Perl Conference (Applying Perl track):

Scaling CGI with Perl PDF PowerPoint

From the Apache Conference:

The Apache FastCGI Implementation PDF PowerPoint

The Apache FastCGI Process Manager

A description of some of the functionality of the process manager in mod_fastcgi. I’m not sure how accurate it is.

Servers that support FastCGI

API/Libraries

The FastCGI application libraries.

Articles on FastCGI