FastCGI Specs and Documentation

• FastCGI Technical White Paper. Start here.
  Motivates FastCGI, then explains the FastCGI interface, FastCGI application roles, the FastCGI application library, and FastCGI performance.
• FAQ.
  Frequently Asked Questions about FastCGI. Includes the issues of porting CGI applications to FastCGI, as well as running remote FastCGI applications.
• Understanding FastCGI Application Performance.
  Why FastCGI applications often run faster than applications coded directly to Web server APIs.
• FastCGI Developer's Kit document.
  • Describes how to configure and build the kit for your development platform.
  • Tells how to write applications using the libraries in the kit.
  • Documents cgi-fcgi, a tool in the kit that allows you to develop and test FastCGI applications using a Web server that lacks FastCGI support.
• Open Market FastCGI 1.0 Programmer's Guide.
  Programmer-oriented documentation for developers of applications that run on the Open Market's Secure WebServer 2.0. The content overlaps considerably with Section 3 of the Developer's Kit document.
• manpages:
  • FCGI_Accept.3
  • FCGI_Finish.3
  • FCGI_SetExitStatus.3
  • FCGI_StartFilterData.3
  • cgi-fcgi.1
• Integrating FastCGI with Java.
  How to write FastCGI applications in Java.
• Integrating FastCGI with Perl-5.
  How to build FastCGI support into the Perl-5 interpreter and how to write FastCGI applications in Perl.
• Integrating FastCGI with Tcl.
  How to build FastCGI support into the Tcl interpreter and how to write FastCGI applications in Tcl.
• FastCGI Specification.
  Defines the interface between a FastCGI application and a Web server that supports FastCGI. This is dry stuff, not needed for writing applications!
• FastCGI: A High-Performance Gateway Interface document.
  Position paper presented at the workshop "Programming the Web -- a search for APIs", Fifth International World Wide Web Conference, 6 May 1996, Paris, France. Short paper, addressed to an audience of technical specialists.