[Haskell-cafe] SCGI module

[Anton Tayanovskyy]

Hello,

SCGI module from Hackage is not working for me with Apache mod_scgi, I
think because it uses LazyBytestring to hGetContents on a socket
handle and the Apache side does not close the socket. Also, looking at
the source I didn't see any fork* calls, so I assume it is not doing
concurrency.

So I ended up writing a replacement and would like to invite comments.
It does forkIO per request and, if asked to, timeouts those threads.
So far it works for me on simple examples from
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Practical_web_programming_in_Haskell
giving roughly 800 requests a second versus 250 on plain CGI (both
through Apache).

  http://hpaste.org/10842

Thanks!

Also, in general, is there any interest in using SCGI, or FastCGI
(plain CGI, HappS, you name it) is vastly superior?


--Anton