httpd(8) only supports the FastCGI protocol. If you want to run your "legacy" CGI programs you need a wrapper. The chosen name for this wrapper is slowcgi(8).

httpd(8) only supports the FastCGI protocol. If you want to run your "legacy" CGI programs you need a wrapper. The chosen name for this wrapper is slowcgi(8). CGI always spawns off an new process for each request, and always was slow compared to FastCGI, so slowcgi(8) seems like a good name.