Re: Why FastCGI?

HTML and FastCGI both require HTTP for the server and client to 
communicate. Server-side programming such as PHP require something like 
CGI, FastCGI or FPM to execute. CGI is the original technology, created 
for HTML to process forms. FastCGI is more efficient. I am not familiar 
with FPM but apparently it has improvements to FastCGI unique to PHP.


Gunter Grodotzki wrote on 3/21/2021 4:53 AM:
> Hi all,
>
> Why does fpm still use fcgi instead of http? What are the advantages (in modern days)?
>
> If it were to speak http, we could most probably avoid the requirement of nginx or similar as middlewoman, which makes cloud setups (docker, aws-alb, ...) a bit easier and more straight forward.
>
> What are the thoughts on this? Alternatively the built-in server but with forking capabilities (similar to fpm) :)
>
> Cheers,
> Gunter
>