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Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth

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Paul Rubin wrote:
> FastCGI is pretty ugly and died out for a long time, though it had a
> minor revival sometime later.  A simple approach may be to just write
> a forking web server in gforth that calls your application (e.g.
> through an execution token), then put it behind a reverse proxy
> (Apache mod_proxy, etc.) on your site if you don't want to expose it
> to the
> outside internet.  That lets you handle stuff like address filtering
> in
> the proxy.  As a side effect, the web server makes it easy to write
> desktop GUI applications in Forth (just listen on 127.0.0.1 and launch
> a
> browser).  Picolisp does something like that.

Yes, that's what I would recommend, too.  The reverse proxy style allows 
to use the system with web servers that have abandoned the more 
complicated CGI variants for good.

> Btw is there likely to be much of an obstacle to implementing
> traditional Forth multitasking (with PAUSE) in gforth?  I've been
> interested in playing with that.  It would allow writing web servers
> with very high concurrency, among other things.

There's tasker.fs.  But if you want real high concurrency, you want a 
pthread-based multitasker (with the same API, but not the traditional 
round-robin implementation), and I've been working on that: the current 
CVS snapshot contains unix/pthread.fs, which is still work in progress.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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FastCGI-like stuff and Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-04-03 13:28 +0000
  Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-03 11:44 -0700
    Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-04-03 21:46 +0200
      Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-03 13:25 -0700
        Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2012-04-03 22:35 +0200
          Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-04 02:20 -0700
            Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-04 05:52 -0500
              Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-05 00:03 -0700
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-05 03:03 -0500
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-05 10:42 -0700
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-06 06:30 -0500
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-07 01:44 -0700
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-04-07 19:04 -0500
                Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-07 17:40 -0700
        Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 13:37 -0700
    Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-04-04 13:20 +0000
      Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-04 11:20 -0700
    Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2012-04-04 13:42 +0000
  Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth Spam@ControlQ.com - 2012-04-04 17:00 -0400
  Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-04-05 13:36 -0700
  Re: FastCGI-like stuff and Forth quiet_lad <gavcomedy@gmail.com> - 2012-04-13 23:10 -0700

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