From: avi@...4.com (Avi Bryant)
Date: 2001-12-09T05:17:30+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27972] Re: IOWA problem

Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> wrote in message news:<20011208052720.GA64119@lizzy.bugworks.com>...
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 02:15:59PM +0900, Avi Bryant wrote:
> > Yup.  mod_iowa is being dumb, as you suspected.  It's expecting urls of the
> > form http://localhost/iowa/some_app_name... in your case, try
> > 
> > http://localhost/iowa/tutorial.
> 
> When I do that I see httpd starting to burn CPU, as indicated in the last post
> :-)
> 
> What kind of input does /tmp/iowa_tutorial expect? 

You can look at the iowa.cgi script, which uses the same (dead simple)
protocol as mod_iowa.
Another option is to dump that protocol entirely and use the FastCGI
patches that have been posted on this list.
Keep me informed - I've never tested on FreeBSD, so maybe there are
issues to be addressed.

Thanks,
Avi