On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Dan Milon <danmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

> Why dont you use node as the server also? (not only processing requests)

> On 07/08/2012 08:01 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:

>> I've been a CGI programmer for 16 years. I have used python for the
>> last 9. I currently use javascript for client-side programming. I am
>> interested in using node.js for server-side programming.

>> I've done a little googling on CGI interfaces for node, but I am
>> finding *too* much information.

>> I am including an untested pseudo-code based on python. With that as
>> a reference, I would welcome some javascript code which would work
>> similarly:
>> code follows
>> ##############################**##############################**######
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> import cgilib   ## my cgi module
>> import mvcLoader as load  ## handles importing controller modules
>> ## script loader.py (the executable 'parent' module)
>> ## is the post action for a form which
>> ## accepts an email address and a password as input fields named
>> ## "email" and "password".
>> ## loader.py has a virtual document path that has as path part 0
>> ## a key for the controller that will be `import'ed by the parent module.
>> ## the post action might look like this:
>> ## "http://localhost/cgi-bin/**loader.py/auth<http://localhost/cgi-bin/loader.py/auth>
>> "
>> if __name__=="__main__":
>>      ## instantiate the cgi object and in doing so,
>>      ## process the CGI environment
>>      cgi = cgilib.Cgi()
>>      ## print the mime-type header
>>      cgi.header('text')
>>      ## Retrieve the values POSTed for 'email' and 'password'
>>      user = cgi["email"]
>>      pwd = cgi["password"]
>>      ## Retrieve the key for the controller module which will then be
>> imported
>>      ## by the load.controller() method
>>      controller_key = cgi[0]
>>      controller = load.controller(cgi[0])
>>      ## And the rest of the work happens below
>>      ## in the imported controller module
>>      controller.process(user,pwd)
>> ##############################**##############################**######
>> The intent and mechanics of my mvcLoad module should not be relevant
>> to this dicussion. What is relevant is allegories to
>> cgi[keyname]
>> and
>> cgi[virtual_document_path_**index]

>> I hope that the example makes my question clear. I don't expect
>> anyone to "roll their own" tutorial, but URLs to discussions
>> on similar node interfaces would be most helpful.

>> TIA

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