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 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 does require that perl is compiled with sfio though. Therefore you'll need at least perl 5.003_02 and you'll have to have configured it with eg './Configure -Duseperlio -Dusesfio' . It might work without sfio with an upcoming glibc release. See http://www.fastcgi.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. 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. Sven Verdoolaege skimo@dns.ufsia.ac.be