Re: FCGI application testing

cheers,

but ditto on the long running session state management.

Michael


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:20:49 -0400, Marc Prewitt  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Steve Ferguson wrote:
>> You could write it so that it can still function as a "regular" CGI,  
>> which
>> isn't much work, at which point you could just feed it inputs on STDIN
>> and get the results on STDOUT/STDERR by running it on the command lnie.
>
> We're doing this with our perl apps.  Using CGI.pm/FCGI.  The main loop  
> looks like this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use CGI::Fast;
> use strict;
>
> while (my $q = new CGI::Fast()) {
>      print "Hello world: \nfoo=", $q->param('foo'), "\n";
> }
>
> When called from the command line, you can pass cgi arguments like this:
>
> foo.cgi arg1=foo arg2=bar
>
>>  Or you could set up your app as an external FCGI server, then just open
>> sockets to it directly for testing.  Granted, this means you have to add
>> your own code to deal with listening on the socket and handling  
>> requests,
>> so this may be using a sledge hammer to crack a walnut.
>>  Steve
>>  On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael Hartley wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for testing FCGI applications without
>>> making HTTP calls via a web server?
>>>
>>> I would like to generate test plans that call the FCGI application
>>> directly passing a fully formed FCGI stream to the application server  
>>> and
>>> reading back the output with the destination probably being a file.
>>>
>>> Failing the possibility of an FCGI application test mechanism, does can
>>> anyone recommendations for executing reproducible test scripts against  
>>> an
>>> FCGI application?
>>>
>>> Any comments, thoughts, suggestions or radical idea's would be gladly
>>> received!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Michael Hartley
>>>
>>>
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