Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to The future of mod_nsd and other web server support

Hold on, my only question is: why didn't we think of this earlier?
Petru, I think this is an *excellent* idea. It makes AOLserver an
application server in the stack, which is *exactly* what we need!
That's the purpose it serves, after all. I'm racking my brain for
potential pitfalls here, but I find no red flags. This sounds like an
absolutely awesome direction. My only questions, and these are
mostly out of ignorance for the current state of FastCGI:

- is the FastCGI spec taken seriously by web server vendors?
Are their implementations of FastCGI decent?

- What other application servers use FastCGI as their primary
interface?

The beauty of this approach is that we can be immediately
compatible with Apache 1.x and 2.x, while letting the Apache
Group handle all of the issues related to their new threaded
environment.

I'm stunned. Hats off to Petru for this approach.