[Catalyst] Fast CGI vs ModPerl

[Perrin Harkins]

Renaud Drousies wrote:
> In my opinion, I'd say that the main disadvantage of running a mod_perl
> application is that your application runs with the webserver's
> credentials, which means that:
> 
> - Any security hole means your whole webserver can be compromised
> - If you need your catalyst app to access some ressources, then the
> user/group the webserver is running as must be granted access to those
> ressources.

If you run with the common setup of a reverse proxy and a separate 
mod_perl server, the security situation is identical for FastCGI and 
mod_perl.

- Perrin