Hi Darren,

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:38:24 +0100 From: "Darren Garvey" <lists.drrngrvy@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [boost] [GSoC][cgi] Status update. To: boost@lists.boost.org

I have access to apache 1.3.*/2.* and lighttpd 1.4.*/1.5.* on windows, cygwin and linux, but I haven't been testing on all of them yet since there are more fundamental things that need to be done first. :-(

Thats ok. I was just curious what servers you had tested on. No need to apologise. Personally I would rather you implement the protocols then spend time testing against servers! ;) At the end of the day the end users (ie those interested in using the library) will test and provide feedback on how well it works. The main reason I was asking about support for IIS7, was it will be easier for me to test against this configuration (I am planning on setting up a virtual machine running server 2008 (I got a beta 3 disk at TechEd)).

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portable will the FASTCGI support you are building in only support

2. Somewhat related to the above if the library code is pipes

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or will it also support TCP sockets? The reason I am asking is that IIS7 will be providing support for the FASTCGI protocol (see http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1000051 for more info).

Currently Boost.Asio doesn't support pipes, so this library won't either, so it uses TCP sockets. It's undecided whether, when pipe support comes about, the use of the two will be a run-time or compile-time choice. Over the summer the leaning has changed from run- to compile-time, but this is debatable...

At this point in time if I had to vote one way or another I would say I would use TCP sockets. The main reason for this would be for portability; Note: I am making the assumption that the support for pipes would be *nix only. Peter.