FastCGI for ISAPI/NSAPI

Version 0.6 beta
Released 11/03/2002

ISAPI/NSAPI binaries (11/03/2002)
Source (11/03/2002)
PHP FastCGI executable for php 4.2.3 (11/03/2002)
PHP USERS NOTE: requires PHP 4.2.x from php.net. The next version of PHP (4.3), will include fastcgi support.

More info on FastCGI at fastcgi.com

NOTE: If you are using a fastcgi app other than PHP, and you would like the IIS/NTFS security impersonation support, you need to use the fastcgi source included in the source distribution above to compile your application.

Instructions for configuration are provided in readme.txt in the above fastcgi zip files.

Features:

Runs under IIS and iPlanet servers (ISAPI/NSAPI)
Configurable Process Manager
Uses IIS Security
Thread Pooling under IIS
Read Ahead POST data for large posts, reduces time spent inside your fastcgi server application.
Asynchronous Read Ahead under IIS
Supports setting custom environment variables per server class
Supports FastCGI Response and Filter servers. Authorizer support in the future.

Changes:

fix extra path_info handling
support for non-php fastcgi servers

fix header parsing to handle status and redirects correctly
fix sending post data to FastCGI server app

fix buffer read problem with post data

Special thanks to Jim Hurd for serveral fixes
fixed post handling
fixed socket connection error handling
fixed cleanup post temp files after request
fixed header support for setting redirects or http error status
implemented asynchronous read ahead of large post data (over 48K) in IIS.
implemented security impersonation for IIS on NT based systems. This feature enables FastCGI servers to impersonate the security level of the calling client. In effect, requests run this way will have the security level of the authenticated IIS user (anonymous user by default). In essence, it provides the same level of security that you would get running a cgi executable. To have your FastCGI applications support this feature, you must currently link against the FastCGI library provided in the source download. This feature is supported only for fastcgi servers executed by this library. The php fastcgi executable provided on this page supports this feature, you must set fastcgi.impersonate=1 in php.ini.
HTTP/1.1 Keep Alive support under IIS. The fastcgi server must send a content-length to have the fastcgi module signal IIS for keep alive.

Fix error ouput bug
Fix documentation problem
update to 2.2.2 FastCGI library

Initial release

USER-BEWARE LICENSE:

Copyright (c) 2002, Shane Caraveo, ............
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
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- Neither name of the copyright holders nor the names of their contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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Portions of this software is copyrighted by Open Market, Inc.  See 
LICENSE.TERMS from the FastCGI development kit available
at www.fastcgi.com.

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