[Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

Lemmih lemmih at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 16:36:51 EDT 2005


On 6/15/05, Bjorn Bringert <bringert at cs.chalmers.se> wrote:
> Graham Klyne wrote:
> > At 23:06 14/06/05 +0200, Bjorn Bringert wrote:
> >
> >> To the people here who are interested in the CGI module: What do you
> >> think of this interface? Could we replace the current Network.CGI with
> >> something like this?
> >
> >
> > I am coming partway into this issue, and may be missing some prior art
> > (or something).
> >
> > I think a an easy-to-use CGI module would be cool.  Your sample code
> > suggests a nice easy-to-use interface.  Even cooler would be if it
> > comes with support to hook into Apache's FastCGI module, or similar
> > optimized invocation from Apache.  That might inspire me to do some more
> > work on my nascent SPARQL (RDF query) implementation.
> 
> Graham, thanks for the suggestion. I went and had a look at FastCGI, and
> wrote an FFI binding to the fcgiapp C library. You can now use CGI
> programs with either CGI or FastCGI, using the same interface.
> 
> My CGI module is in a darcs repo at:
> http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/haskell-cgi/
> 
> The FastCGI module is at:
> http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/darcs/haskell-fastcgi/

I'm having problems building FastCGI. It uses 'runCGIEnv' which isn't
exported from Network.NewCGI.

-- 
Friendly,
  Lemmih


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