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FastCGI Developer's Kit README
------------------------------
Version 1.5, 12 June 1996
$Id: README,v 1.1.1.1 1996/11/11 23:31:40 per Exp $
Copyright (c) 1996 Open Market, Inc.
See the file "LICENSE.TERMS" for information on usage and redistribution
of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
Basic Directions
----------------
Open the kit's index page, index.html in this directory, using the
"Open File" command in your Web browser. The index page gives you an
overview of the kit structure and helps you navigate the kit. The
index page also contains links that run some example applications, but
the applications won't work when index.html is opened using the "Open
File" command because they aren't being accessed through a Web server.
For further instructions see the FastCGI Developer's Kit
document, accessible via the index page.
What's New: Version 1.5, 12 June 1996
--------------------------------------
General:
Added a white paper on FastCGI application performance to the
doc directory. Generally brought the other docs up to date.
Rearranged the kit to put more emphasis on running FastCGI-capable
servers and less on running cgi-fcgi. Added
examples/conf/om-httpd.config, a config file that demonstrates all
of the example apps. (Would like to have similar configs for NCSA
and Apache.)
Added the tiny-authorizer and sample-store applications to
the examples. These are explained in the index.html.
In addition to everything else it does, sample-store demonstrates
a bug in the Open Market WebServer 2.0: When an Authorizer
application denies access, the server tacks some extra junk onto
the end of the page the application returns. A little ugly but
not fatal.
C libraries:
Added the functions FCGX_Finish and FCGI_Finish. These functions
finish the current request from the HTTP server but do not begin a
new request. These functions make it possible for applications to
perform other processing between requests. An application must not
use its stdin, stdout, stderr, or environ between calling
FCGI_Finish and calling FCGI_Accept. See doc/FCGI_Finish.3 for
more information. The application examples/sample-store.c demonstrates
the use of FCGI_Finish.
Added conditional 'extern "C"' stuff to the .h files fcgi_stdio.h,
fcgiapp.h, and fcgiappmisc.h for the benefit of C++ applications
(suggested by Jim McCarthy).
Fixed two bugs in FCGX_VFPrintF (reported by Ben Laurie). These
bugs affected processing of %f format specifiers and of all format
specifiers containing a precision spec (e.g "%12.4g").
Fixed a bug in FCGX_Accept in which the environment variable
FCGI_WEBSERVER_ADDRS was being read rather than the specified
FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS. Fixed a bug in FCGX_Accept in which the
wrong storage was freed when FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS contained more
than one address or if the address check failed.
Changed FCGX_Accept to avoid depending upon accept(2) returning the
correct value of sin_family in the socketaddr structure for an
AF_UNIX connection (SCO returns the wrong value, as reported by Paul
Mahoney).
Changed the error retry logic in FCGX_Accept. FCGX_Accept now
returns -1 only in case of operating system errors that occur while
accepting a connection (e.g. out of file descriptors). Other errors
cause the current connection to be dropped and a new connection to
be attempted.
Perl:
Changed FCGI.xs to make it insensitive to Perl's treatment of
environ (we hope). Changed FCGI::accept so the initial environment
variables are not unset on the first call to FCGI::accept (or on
subsequent calls either). Added the echo-perl example
program. Added a workaround for the "empty initial environment bug"
to tiny-perl-fcgi. Changed the example Perl scripts to use a new
symbolic link ./perl, avoiding the HP-UX 32 character limit on the
first line of a command interpreter file.
Because the FastCGI-enabled Perl interpreter uses the C fcgi_stdio
library, it picks up all the changes listed above for C. There's
a new Perl subroutine FCGI::finish.
Tcl:
Fixed a bug in tclFCGI.c that caused the request environment
variables to be lost. Changed FCGI_Accept so the initial
environment variables are not unset on the first call to FCGI_Accept
(or on subsequent calls either). Added the echo-tcl example
program. Fixed another bug that caused Tcl to become confused by
file opens; as a side effect of this change, writes to stdout/stderr
that occur in an app running as FastCGI before FCGI_Accept is called
are no-ops rather than crashing Tcl. Changed the example Tcl
scripts to use a new symbolic link ./tclsh, avoiding the HP-UX 32
character limit on the first line of a command interpreter file.
Because the FastCGI-enabled Tcl interpreter uses the C fcgi_stdio
library, it picks up all the changes listed above for C; there's
a new Tcl command FCGI_Finish.
Java:
Fixed a sign-extension bug in FCGIMessage.java that caused bad encodings
of names and values in name-value pairs for lengths in [128..255].
Made small cleanups in the Java example programs to make them more
consistent with the other examples.
What's New: Version 1.4, 10 May 1996
--------------------------------------
Includes Java classes and Java examples.
What's New: Version 1.3.1, 6 May 1996
--------------------------------------
New, simplified, license terms. Includes an expanded whitepaper that
describes FastCGI support in Open Market's Secure WebServer 2.0.
Includes Open Market FastCGI 1.0 Programmer's Guide. Includes
"FastCGI: A High-Performance Gateway Interface", a position paper
presented at the workshop "Programming the Web - a search for APIs",
Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, 6 May 1996, Paris,
France.
What's New: Version 1.3, 29 April 1996
--------------------------------------
First public release; new license terms on all files.
Changed cgi-fcgi.c to use SO_REUSEADDR when creating the listening socket;
this avoids the need to wait through the TIME_WAIT state on all the TCP
connections made by the previous instance of an external application
you are restarting.
What's New: Version 1.2.2, 15 April 1996
----------------------------------------
Partially fixed a bug in Perl's FCGI::accept (source file FCGI.xs).
The per-request environment variables were being lost. Now the
per-request environment variables show up correctly, except that if
the Perl application has an empty initial environment, the environment
variables associated with the *first* request are lost. Therefore,
when starting Perl, always set some environment variable using the
AppClass -initial-env option, or by running cgi-fcgi in a non-empty
environment.
What's New: Version 1.2.1, 22 March 1996
----------------------------------------
Fixed a bug in FCGI_Accept. If your application running as FastCGI
opened a file before calling FCGI_Accept, it would decide that it
was really running as CGI. Things went downhill quickly after that!
Also added advisory locking to serialize calls to accept on shared
listening sockets on Solaris and IRIX, to work around problems
with concurrent accept calls on these platforms.
What's New: Version 1.2, 20 March 1996
--------------------------------------
1. This version of the kit implements the most recent draft
of the protocol spec. Enhancements to the protocol include
a BEGIN_REQUEST record that simplifies request ID management
and transmits role and keep-alive information, and a simplified
end-of-stream indication.
The protocol spec has been revised to describe exactly what's
been implemented, leaving out the features that we hope to
introduce in later releases.
At the application level, the visible change is the FCGI_ROLE
variable that's available to applications. This allows an application
to check that it has been invoked in the expected role. A single
application can be written to respond in several roles. The
FCGI_Accept.3 manpage contains more information.
2. We introduced the new "module" prefix FCGX in order to simplify
the relationship between fcgi_stdio and fcgiapp.
A growing number of functions are provided in both fcgi_stdio and
fcgiapp versions. Rather than inventing an ad hoc solution for each
naming conflict (as we did with FCGI_accept and FCGI_Accept), we've
bitten the bullet and systematically renamed *all* the fcgapp
primitives with the prefix FCGX_. In fcgi_stdio, we've renamed
FCGI_accept to FCGI_Accept. So all functions that are common in the
two libraries have the same name modulo the different prefixes.
The Accept function visible in Tcl is now called FCGI_Accept, not
FCGI_accept.
The Accept function visible in Perl is now FCGI::accept. All
lower case names for functions and all upper case names for
modules appears to be a Perl convention, so we conform.
3. The kit now fully supports the Responder, Authorizer,
and Filter roles.
The Filter role required a new function, FCGI_StartFilterData.
FCGI_StartFilterData changes the input stream from reading
FCGI_STDIN data to reading FCGI_DATA data. The manpage
gives full details.
Another new function, FCGI_SetExitStatus, is primarily for
the Responder role but is available to all. FCGI_SetExitStatus
allows an application to set a nonzero "exit" status
before completing a request and calling FCGI_Accept again.
The manpage gives full details.
These two new functions are provided at both the fcgi_stdio interface
and the basic fcgiapp interface. Naturally, the fcgiapp versions are
called FCGX_StartFilterData and FCGX_SetExitStatus.
4. The fcgiapp interface changed slightly in order to treat
the streams and environment data more symmetrically.
FCGX_Accept now returns an environment pointer, rather than requiring
a call to FCGX_GetAllParams to retrieve an environment pointer.
FCGX_GetParam takes an explicit environment pointer argument.
FCGX_GetAllParams is eliminated. See the documentation in the header
file for complete information.
fcgiapp also added the procedure FCGX_IsCGI, providing a standardized
test of whether the app was started as CGI or FastCGI.
5. We've ported the kits to vendor-supported ANSI C compilers
on Sun (Solaris 2.X), HP, and Digital platforms. GCC can be
selected on these platforms by performing SETENV CC gcc before
running configure.
What's New: Version 1.1, 30 Jan 1996
------------------------------------
1. More platforms: Digital UNIX, IBM AIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX,
Sun SunOS 4.1.4.
2. Perl and Tcl: Simple recipes for producing Perl and Tcl
interpreters that run as FastCGI applications. No source
code changes are needed to Perl and Tcl. Documented
in separate documents, accessible via the index page.
Version 1.0, 10 Jan 1996
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