Copyright (c) 1996 Open Market, Inc. See the file "LICENSE.TERMS" for information on usage and redistribution of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. Copyright (c) 1996-1998 Sven Verdoolaege No additional restrictions/warranties. This is a Fast CGI module for perl. It's based on the FCGI module that comes with Open Market's FastCGI Developer's Kit, but does not require you to recompile perl. It even no longer requires perl to be compiled with sfio. The sfio version has had more testing though. To compile with sfio you'll need at least perl 5.003_02 and you'll have to have configured it with eg './Configure -Duseperlio -Dusesfio'. (See the INSTALL file that comes with the perl distribution.) To compile without sfio you'll need an even more recent perl version. (perl 5.004 and up should be fine.) See http://fastcgi.idle.com/ for more information about fastcgi. Lincoln D. Stein's perl CGI module also contains some information about fastcgi programming. See echo.fpl for an example on how to use this module. To install, do the usual perl Makefile.PL make make install If Makefile.PL finds an already installed (exported) fcgi library it will use that instead of the included files. Edit Makefile.PL if you don't want that or if it doesn't find them. To configure the library Makefile.PL will run ./configure . You may want to run it yourself beforehand because its findings may not always be correct. The INSTALL file describes how to run ./configure (and only that). If you're on a solaris system and your installed fcgi library is 2.02b or earlier, you'll probably want to use the included files. The FCGI module installs die and warn handlers that merely print the error/warning to STDERR (the default handlers print directly to stderr, which isn't redirected in the non sfio case). I'm not very happy with the result. Suggestions welcome. Sven Verdoolaege skimo@kotnet.org