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Remember FastCGI? (2021)

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53 points heavensteeth | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 12:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.353s | source
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mhd ◴[11 Apr 25 10:58 UTC] No.43652509[source]▶
Sure, but does anyone remember SCGI?
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1. dfox ◴[11 Apr 25 11:54 UTC] No.43652808[source]▶
In my opinion that was step in the right direction, but the protocol design is truly weird. Somehow managing to come up with 4 different ways to encode length of byte strings in otherwise so simple protocol is remarkable achievement.