[Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

[Bjorn Bringert]

Lemmih wrote:
> 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.

Damn. Sorry. I forgot to push the NewCGI changes needed by FastCGI. 
Fixed now.

There is a problem with FastCGI where Apache gets a broken pipe now and 
then. I haven't figured it out yet. Network.FastCGI currently also logs 
a lot of stuff to error_log. So it's not really ready for any use other 
than experimentation yet.

/Björn