This module used to be third-party, but was granted to the ASF as an Apache HTTP Server subproject in 2009, shepherded by Chris Darroch.
Technologies like FastCGI and its derivatives (including SCGI, WSGI) do not exhibit the performance disadvantages of CGI incurred by the constant process spawning.
Open Market also invented FastCGI, a high-performance variant of the CGI interface.
FastCGI |
PSGI or Perl Web Server Gateway Interface is an interface between Web servers and Perl-based Web applications and frameworks that allows writing portable applications that can be run as standalone servers or using CGI, FastCGI, mod perl, et al.