OS X CGI

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Aug 23 21:41:43 EDT 2007


Andre Garzia wrote:
> as for your question below, the answer is yes, some brazilian guy created
> ACGI routines for Apache, guess who was the guy?

Well, I know a few Brazilians, but only one crazy enough to pull this 
off. :)

> Its easy and it uses the darwin engine to load a simple CGI that passes the
> control to a running revolution (actually any MacOS X) application. The
> application receives an event based on old ACGI events popular during the
> times of WebStar and MacHTTP. The reply from the app is piped back to the
> browser.
> ...
> This was done for Dave Brooks and has been tested with HTTP Requests as big
> as 8 megabytes... I think it can handle things well. Interested?

Since I use only Linux on my servers, I won't be able to take advantage 
of this myself. But I very much appreciate your good work on this, and 
will pass along this info to the forum thread where it came up.

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