macOS Add CGI to my own web server built in cocoa

[GRMrGecko]

How can I add CGI to my own server? I've been searching for almost a week. I found FastCGI but I don't quite understand it. Where is the documentations on how to add support to your own server? how can I add it? please someone help me!

Thanks for any help,
Mr. Gecko

 

[Cromulent]

How can I add CGI to my own server? I've been searching for almost a week. I found FastCGI but I don't quite understand it. Where is the documentations on how to add support to your own server? how can I add it? please someone help me!

Thanks for any help,
Mr. Gecko

Do you mean a server you have written yourself?

 

[GRMrGecko]

Do you mean a server you have written yourself?

What else could I mean when I'm writing it in the programming side.

 

[Cromulent]

What else could I mean when I'm writing it in the programming side.

No need to be rude. Some people write very non programming related things in this forum. Best bet would be to look at the Apache source code or LightHTTP and see how one of those projects do it and then implement the same sort of thing in your own server.

 

[GRMrGecko]

No need to be rude. Some people write very non programming related things in this forum. Best bet would be to look at the Apache source code or LightHTTP and see how one of those projects do it and then implement the same sort of thing in your own server.

CGI appears to just be a perl script...
Can't I just use NSTask and make it run it and return everything that is needed to be returned, parsing out headers...?

 

[Cromulent]

CGI appears to just be a perl script...
Can't I just use NSTask and make it run it and return everything that is needed to be returned, parsing out headers...?

Depends on the performance of that task. CGI scripts can be written in many languages such as C, Perl, Python, Ruby etc etc. If it is particularly slow then you will want to find a better way of doing it. Looking at the Apache source code will give you a better understanding of how other projects manage it.