On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Brian Candler wrote:

> I quite like the Apache/FastCGI approach because the code for allocating
> instances of the backend is already written and hopefully reasonably
> debugged; it can have a fixed or variable number of instances.

debugged, but not user friendly.  i wrote a little wrapper that dealt with
much of the signal handling, and used someone else pattern (i forget whose) to
boot strap a normal cgi objec of off a fcgi object.  it's at

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ahoward+mod_fcgi+group:comp.lang.ruby&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=Pine.LNX.4.33.0302121430040.10747-100000%40eli.fsl.noaa.gov&rnum=1

-a

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