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Yeah, You should read up nodejs.org & tutorials / blogs to learn more ;)

danmilon.

On 07/09/2012 12:54 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Dan Milon <danmi...@gmail.com> [120708 10:27]:
>> You wouldn't use node as a cgi script (at least for the web part).
>> Technically you can, but you would lose all the benefits
>> (async/nonblocking io) since you let apache or any http server for the
>> matter enforce the concurrency model. Afaik, the cgi server will pull up
>> node processes for each request, which is overkill (startup times) or
>> pool them but things will get complex.
>>
>> As it concerns network/http related scripts, its a big no no, unless you
>> cant replace the http server in your stack, and really need to use node
>> (which is a silly case)
>> If you have to use cgi, i suggest you keep using php/python.
>    :) python is not PHP ... and my question was pretty much
>    rhetorical. I don't know much about the origin of node, I ended up
>    with it in the process of getting csslint installed - so it is all
>    new to me.
>> Why dont you use node as the server also? (not only processing requests)
>    Ah! So node was developed to as a 'serving' tool as opposed to a
>    'scripting' tool?
>
>    thanks for the reply
>