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Sure, but does anyone remember SCGI?

• dfox 1y ago
  In my opinion that was step in the right direction, but the protocol design is truly weird. Somehow managing to come up with 4 different ways to encode length of byte strings in otherwise so simple protocol is remarkable achievement.
• immibis 1y ago
  nginx supports four backend protocols out of the box: HTTP, FastCGI, SCGI, and static files. Of these, if you get to pick one and the request isn't for a static file, SCGI is the obvious best choice. You can also load extra plugin modules into nginx itself, of course, including one that puts a Lua interpreter inside nginx (mod_php-style).