Lighttpd

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= Developmenet Problem And Solution =
This page is meant to list Problem And Solutions implementing lighttpd. Any feature requests should be go to [/trac/newticket ticket system].

= Redundant FastCGI/SCGI etc =

Problem
In lighttpd 1.4, most of the source code of mod_cgi, mod_scgi and mod_proxy were cut'n'pasted from mod_fastcgi.

Why: Redundant code make it hard to maintain.

Solution
combine them into mod_proxy_core and add protocols around it * the core provides * config handling * connect/retry on failure * fork/restart worker child on dead. (easier to improve native win32 support) * balancing * x-sendfile * the protocol backends take care of * preparing the environment (most cgi env code can be shared) * encode/decode data * handle io

Why: scgi/fastcgi/ejb/http or whatever, are just protocols that we can use to send requests to and get response from backend.

Status
Implemented in 1.5.0