[Zope] fastcgi protocol

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi,

--On Donnerstag, 9. August 2001 12:29 +0400 Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>> hmm. I never really understand what value pcgi adds to zope
>> more then in situations mod_proxy and friends are not available.
>
>    No, you are wrong. PCGI protocol, for example, passess the entire
> environment from Apache, including REMOTE_ADDRESS. Proxy screws the
> REMOTE_ADDRESS.

yeah, right. It even does not pass it with the via header (the same for
squid. I would consider this to be a bug btw.)

>> I did not make measurements, but from what I see from others,
>> zope with pcgi is slower then zserver. You also loose the
>> various zserver modules like ftp and the extra DAV source
>> port. Even some upcoming extra services like smtp and imap
>> can be used then.
>
>    You are partially right, and partially wrong. You are talking about Zope
> in PCGI-only (no ZServer) mode. Yes, this is slow and inconvenient. But
> ZServer includes PCGI server, too. So run Zope with ZServer with PCGI, and
> connect Apache with mod_pcgi2. This is a bit faster than mod_proxy.

Ah, interesting. One never stops learning :-)
Thanks
Tino :)