rick.james

  • IIS 7 Hello World Module Walkthrough

    The other day I found out that the Vista SDK includes a compiler. I was very excited to find this out, cause now creating a "Hello World" IIS 7 C++ module only requires one huge install (and two little ones).

  • Fake FastCGI Web Server

    When developing a new FastCGI library, the web server can get in the way. The attached program wraps a FastCGI executable in a minimal FastCGI environment. It should be enough to get "hello world" working. It only uses named pipes. It doesn't exercise all FastCGI protocol features. Sample PHP 5 run:

  • IIS 7 FastCGI Module

    The IIS FastCGI preview is ready! I spent the last month developing the IIS 7 FastCGI module. Wade has adapted the module to work as an ISAPI on IIS 6 (and unofficially on IIS 5). Marchel and Mukhtar (and recently Cip) have been testing until late in the evenings for the last few weeks. Bill and Mike have been managing the project. It was really exciting going from nothing to something in 1 month. Normally we take product development at a slower pace.