[Zope] How Fast & Stable??

[Stuart 'Zen' Bishop]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Geoff Caplan wrote:

> Brian
> 
> > There are no igorant questions :)  FastCGI integration with Zope, like
> > the other transport implementations, will be totally transaparent to
> > the developer - the only time you will have to think about it is when
> > you install it.
> >
> 
> Does this mean that the developer writes standard Python and Zope looks
> after everything else?
> 
> Geoff Caplan

As far as Zope is concerned, FastCGI is only a method of gluing
Zope onto another web server such as Apache. It has absolutly nothing 
to do with developing Zope applications. The only thing FastCGI support
will give you is a peformance boost if you run Zope behind another
web server, and a third option when you initially install Zope (ZServer
standalone, ZServer with PCGI or ZServer with FastCGI). All three options
look identical to your developers.

PCGI and FastCGI fundamentally do the same thing - allow a web server to 
pass requests to Zope. PCGI just uses standard CGI, and can be used to 
integrate Zope to just about any web server on the planet. FastCGI is a 
more efficiant protocol, but requires a web server that supports FastCGI.

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