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Re: CGI scripts



On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:36:40PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> I like the idea of generating content dynamically, CGI, however, looks
> like the wrong path to me.  There exist more elegant ways, FastCGI comes
> to my mind, or any approach where there is not the overhead of starting
> the CGI program.

Since Lua is *designed* for embedded use, why not link the library into
the base httpd?  This means we wouldn't need to pull in yet another
library (fastcgi or scgi)

Cheers,
Peter
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