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Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-19 09:40:21

nginx-cgi plugin Brings CGI support to Nginx and Angie webserver. OS Tested with Nginx Angie Linux AlmaLinux 9, Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04/20.04 okay okay Darwin MacOS 15.1 okay okay BSD FreeBSD 14.2 and OpenBSD 7.6 okay okay Solaris OmniOS r1510521 okay okay Windows No plan, nginx barely supports Windows Before everything CGI is neither a demon nor an angel. It is simply a tool. Just like a chef's knife in the hands of a cook or a sword in the hands of a warrior, you won't use a sword for c

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Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-25 06:16:36

In my previous post Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin, I did some quick performance testing of CGI using a program written in Go. Go works excellently for CGI programs, for many of the same reasons it works so well for CLI programs and system daemons. But, out of curiosity, I decided to do a bit more CGI testing with other languages. CGI is good technology, actually# There’s a misconception that because CGI is old or because many CGI scripts had security vulnerabilities, CG

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People Hated the ‘Squid Game’ Ending, so They’re Using AI to Make New Ones

gizmodo.com James Pero 2026-02-01 09:42:15

Pissing people off with your series finale is practically a rite of passage for beloved TV shows at this point. Just ask fans of The Sopranos, or Dexter, or Game of Thrones. And if you’re feeling butt hurt by your favorite TV show’s subpar ending, you may be tempted to imagine a whole new one—an ending where Tony gets whacked, or survives some kind of epic John Wick-style shootout, or, I don’t know, assembles all the Infinity Stones and becomes the supreme ruler of mobsters across the universe.

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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-04 04:16:09

In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C or other languages to increase performance. The CGI mechanism is conceptually simple but powerful. When the web server receives an incoming request for a CGI script (e.g. /~jakegold/cgi-bin/guestbook.cgi ), it: Sets up environment variables containing request metadata (HTTP headers, query parameters, requ

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