[cgiapp] use persisten instance of cgiapp with cgi::fast?

[P Kishor]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Dietrich Streifert
<dietrich.streifert at visionet.de> wrote:
>
>  Hello All,
>
> I'm currently using speedy_cgi as a persistent perl process and wanted
> to test if fcgi would be an option for me.
>

I am curious as to why you want to shift from SpeedyCGI to FastCGI if
the former is already giving you a persistent perl process and the
consequent speed advantages.

There are so many persistent perl methods out there now that I would
love to see an exhaustive comparison of them.


> I've installed and configured mod_fcgid with apache2 on linux and tested
> the base functions and the fcgi interface successfully.
>
> Then I read the article in
>
>
> http://cgi-app.org/index.cgi?FastChttp://cgi-app.org/index.cgi?FastCGIGI
>
> And managed to run my cgiapp with this method.
>
> As the method implies a new instance of my cgiapp is created for every
> request. With speedy_cgi I used to only create a cgiapp instance once
> and reuse it on request. I consider my cgiapp to be a big one and it
> would benefit a lot from being instantiated once and  the instance
> reused often.
>
> So I did the following additions/modifications to the example mentioned
> in the article:
>
> use CGI::Fast;
>
> my $app = MyCGIApplication->new();
> while (my $q = CGI::Fast->new()){
>    $app->query($q);
>    $app->run();
> }
>
> This basicly worked but as soon as multiple requests to the script are
> initiated or request answers exceed some magic size the clients get
> incomplete answers ie. the page code stops unexpected somewhere between
> head and end.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> What is wrong with my modifications?
> Do I have to flush some buffers in order to ensure complete delivery to
> the client?
> Are there any other possibilities to achieve a persisten reference to my
> cgiapp that does not get initializied at every request? (besides
> mod_perl or speedy_cgi).
>
> Any help would be great.
>
> Best regards...
>
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