On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 07:57 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > The slowness depends on how your cgi executes. If it is a perl > script loading perl on every hit it will be slower. If you > use php, mod_perl, fastcgi, speedycgi, java, etc. where the > interpreter is loaded once for many hits you won't really see > a speed difference. As well as how well you write your program... It does seem however, that nearly every dynamically generated site that I've come across behaves like it's on a 16 MHz 486. > As far as caching goes, it shouldn't make any difference. Many things will not cache URIs with parameters. e.g. <http://example.com/cgi?some+parameters> In the belief that they might be caching something that they really shouldn't. > Anything with basic authentication set should not be cached anyway > except by the local browser. That actually was my main concern (no local caching). Time and time again I've used incredibly slow HTTPS sites where nothing is cacheable. I can't back track (nothing loads, or the server throws a wobbly). I can only navigate via the links on the page. Tough luck if the idiot webmaster made it impossible to go back to where you need to go. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
