[Mapserver-dev] FastCGI Support in MapServer

[Sean Gillies]

On Sep 16, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Refractions and I are investigating moving ahead with more complete 
> FastCGI
> support in MapServer.  I forsee needing to write a small "stdio 
> wrapper"
> set of functions and all MapServer input from stdin and output to 
> stdout
> and stderr would need to be directed through this API instead of normal
> stdio functions.
>
> I have written up a few notes on this near the bottom of the FastCGI 
> topic
> in the wiki:
>
>   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?FastCGI
>
> Would anyone have any objections, concerns, suggestions with regard to 
> my
> idea of implementing such an msIO_<stdio>() set of functions, and 
> altering
> mapserv.c, and the lower level code to use it?
>

Frank,

I'd like to help you with the standard stream wrappers.  This could help
us share the WMS dispatching with mapscript

   http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=670

Would mapservObj be changed to store input and output filehandles, or 
would
they be stored in mapObj?

Sean

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