Optimising CGI
- Executing a CGI script involves creating a new process
- This has overheads
- If the script can run entirely within the server, this
overhead is removed
Examples
- Active Server Pages - run within Internet Explorer
- Java servlets
- Apache modules
Cost/benefit
- Less startup cost
- Can be persistent in server
- May be possible setup to maintain sessions
- But, have access to server internals
Jan Newmarch (http://jan.newmarch.name)
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