asp versus cgi

[Tim Roberts]

davidj411 <davidj411 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>when i use cgi, i never get a 500 error but i can see how it might
>take on overhead if many users are hitting the site at once. so to
>avoid this, i looked into registering the python engine for ASP
>requests.

It is easy to overestimate the overhead of CGI.  Unless you are getting
tens of requests every second, the overhead is insignificant, and CGI is
pretty easy to handle and debug.

>********************************************************
>this is the ASP code when using GET method:
>
><%@ LANGUAGE = Python%>
>
><%
>import sys
>sys.stdout=sys.stdin

What do you believe that statement is doing?

>POST by the way seems to have a 100 kb limit so why ever use it unless
>you need to keep the data out of the URL?)

No, POST doesn't have a 100 kB limit.  When you upload a file to a web
site, it's sent through a POST request.  However, keeping data out of the
URL is a big factor.
-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.