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23 4 Developing FastCGI<BR>
29 This chapter explains how to code FastCGI applications in Tcl. Prior to creating a FastCGI application, you
30 must have a FastCGI-savvy version of the Tcl interpreter. Open Market develops Tcl binaries for popular
31 platforms and makes them available with our developer's kit.
34 <A NAME="4943"></A> The FastCGI-savvy binaries are extensions of standard Tcl, and are intended to replace
35 your existing Tcl installation. There is no need to maintain two versions of Tcl: the version that we supply
36 will work fine when invoked from a shell or a CGI program. There are also directions in the developer's
37 kit for how to make your own FastCGI-savvy Tcl, if you need a version for some platform that we don't
41 <A NAME="4221"></A> In many cases, you can convert a Tcl script from CGI to FastCGI by adding a few lines of
42 code to an existing script. For more complex scripts, you may also need to rearrange some existing code.
51 The first line of any Tcl script typically specifies the pathname of the Tcl interpreter itself. You must
52 specify the pathname of a FastCGI-savvy Tcl.
55 <A NAME="4226"></A> Then, you have to divide FastCGI scripts into the following two sections:
64 Initialization section, which is executed only once. <A NAME="4228"></A>
67 Response loop section, which gets executed every time the FastCGI script gets called.
72 A response loop typically has the following format:
77 <A NAME="4923">while {[FCGI_Accept] >= 0 } {
79 <A NAME="4925"># body of response loop
86 The <CODE>FCGI_Accept</CODE> call returns 0 whenever a client requests the FastCGI script. Otherwise, the
87 <CODE>FCGI_Accept</CODE> call returns -1.
96 Here is a simple example of a FastCGI application written in Tcl:
107 while {[FCGI_Accept] >= 0 } {
109 puts -nonewline "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n"
110 puts "<title>FastCGI Hello! (Tcl)</title>"
111 puts "<h1>FastCGI Hello! (Tcl)</h1>"
112 puts "Request number $count running on host <i>$env(SERVER_NAME)</i>"
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