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An Efficient CGI Gateway in the UNIX System  

이형봉 (호남대학교 정보통신공학부)
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Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters / v.10, no.1, 2004 , pp. 66-74 More about this Journal
Abstract
To get changing data or retrieved information in a web service environment, we need the CGI method in which we designate an executable file and receive the output of the executable file as a document. But the original CGI method has some performance pitfalls caused by the native condition that a process for the requested executable file should be created every time it is requested. Several approaches that make the process as a daemon wholly or partly have been made to solve those problems and they have exclusive strength and weakness. So, many developers are confused when they have to choose which of the CGI methods. We proposed an efficient CGI gateway design called SendFD that the main part of CGI gateway was separated as a daemon and taken over the communication channel by the other small part forked whenever it was requested. Then we testified the efficiency of SendFD styled CGI gateway in real web service environment and it showed about 3% performance improvement compared to the conventional socket pipe method.
Keywords
CGI; FastCGI; socket pipe; SendFD; HTTP;
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