Key Recommendations

  • Set sanity timers in CGIs.

  • Get some output from the CGI to the user right away.

  • Don’t write CGIs in a shell scripting language.

  • Daemonize CGIs.

  • FastCGI scales much better than CGI.

  • Use mod_perl if your CGIs are in Perl and your server is Apache.

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