[web-devel] Re: CGI

[Johan Tibell]

Thanks for the explanation Curt!

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Curt Sampson <cjs at starling-software.com> wrote:
> But overall, I'd be much happier with a protocol that just handed me
> the raw HTTP request, and allowed me to send back a raw HTTP response.
> The issue is, of course, getting the protocol implemented in various
> web servers. I could, I suppose, design a new protocol and write a
> C implementation for lighttpd. But then, given that I'd hope to be
> talking to a Haskell application server anyway, GHC has great support
> for building efficient, multiprocessing, highly concurrent servers, and
> Haskell is about a hundred times nicer to program in than C, I think I'd
> just write a high-performance web server in Haskell. (Except that it's
> already been done, anyway.)

I'm currently experimenting with such an HTTP request data type in the
context of Hyena, my web application server. I'll post a message to
this list once I have something to share.

Cheers,

Johan