From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-02T05:19:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27216] Re: Multithreading and cgi.rb

In article <20011201125710.B545@michael.neumann.all>, "Michael Neumann"
<neumann@s-direktnet.de> wrote:

> Do you want multiple connections, i.e. handling multiple requests within
> one CGI application? This is impossible with CGI.

As I discovered as soon as I tried to use it :-).

> Have a look at FastCGI.

Unfotunately, as far as I can see, all that does is accept the multiple
connections, read the request and pass it on.  I have code for
that which I'm quite happy with.

What I was after from the CGI stuff was the ability to pull the request
apart, like pulling out cookies, reading multi-part forms and accepting
uploaded files, etc.

Not to worry.  I might be able to"borrow" some of the code from cgi.rb
to augment what I've written.

It would be nice if cgi.rb could be changed at some point to make it
usable in multi-threaded applications, because it provides a lot of
functionality that is quite complex to get right.