[Catalyst] OT: mod_fastcgi vs. mod_perl (was uri_for() question)

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 27 Mar 2006, at 22:55, Christopher H. Laco wrote:

> Scott Karns wrote:
>> Matt,
>>
>> If you don't mind, I (and other relative neophytes,
>> I'm sure) would like to hear you and anyone else
>> interested in chiming in, expand on your preference
>> for mod_fastcgi over mod_perl when running on apache.
>
> I'll bite. Mod_perl, while it has its place, is way too complicated  
> for
> most setups. There are a number of things that can bite you in the ass
> for no good reason...memory footprint, mem shareing, global/local
> variables, etc.

Whereas those of us who have been wrangling mod_perl for a long time
feel exactly the same way about FCGI.

mod_perl is about more than running pseudo CGI scripts. It's about
intercepting any of up to a dozen phases of an HTTP transaction[0].

Put it another way, there's a huge fat O'Reilly on mod_perl, is there
one on FCGI?

[0] Bad word, but all I can think of right now.

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