Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 18:00:13 +0200
From: "Dirk.vanGulik" <Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it>
Message-Id: <9604261600.AA28970@ jrc.it>
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Subject: Re: ScriptAlias-like extensions for perl etc
Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org
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Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com

> thoughts?

How about atacking this on mime-type level, spotting
the .pl and specifying an optional binary as the third
argument on the line ?

Dw.

> All my CGI is written in perl. As an experiment I changed
> mod_cgi.c to call the perl binary directly instead of leaving
> it to sh (I think that's what gets called to determine that perl
> needs to be called because of the "#!" first line.)
> 
> I guess there must be an existing directive that could be reused to
> mark script extensions or entire directories to be passed to a binary
> instead of to sh. The change to mod_cgi.c is trivial..
> 
>   execle(r->filename, argv0, NULL, env);
> becomes
>   execle("/usr/local/bin/perl", argv0, r->filename, NULL, env);
> 
> 
> Speedups are not at all dramatic (running perl is a bigger overhead), but
> I can detect speedup by hammering on a CGI script and then looking at
> mod_status to compare the numbers.
> 
> What'd be nice would be things like,
> 
> CGIBinary /usr/local/bin/perl pl
> DefaultBinary /usr/local/bin/perl
> 
> or something along those lines.
> 
> 
> 
> rob
>