Re: Serving Images via FastCGI

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:18:32PM -0500, Simon wrote:
> I have a PHP application which loads images via PHP script. Running this PHP
> script via PHP FastCGI creates a problem. The application loads hundreds of
> small images via this script on a single .php page This invokes hundreds of
> FastCGI processes just to serve a single user.  When images are served via 
> Apache, only 2 processes are used to serve all the images for a single HTTP
> keep-alive session in a series manner instead of parallel in case of FastCGI. Is
> there a way to implement same keep-alive mechanism in the case of a FastCGI
> app serving images during single HTTP keep-alive session?

does your PHP script send content-length headers? does it
implement the HTTP cacheing semantics? have you tried
replacing it with an implementation in a different
language? why are you serving images from a script anyway?

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