[MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: cgi scripts and associated files

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

Leland Beaudrot wrote:

>According to MacPerl Power and Ease (p. 233): "Most Mac OS web servers
>will wait for a CGI to finish running before responding to any other
>requests... so a CGI can appear to slow down the entire server
>significantly....you should always use the .acgi (Asynchronous CGI)
>suffix for your CGIs."

This has been corrected in the errata:

http://pudge.net/macperl/macperl_errata.txt

[233]    .acgi should NOT necessarily be preferred over .cgi.  The
          former can cause the CGIs to hang as the web server forwards
          multiple requests while MacPerl is busy.

-David-
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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