[petee]

Its too bad this never got more traction, I always thought the ability to define roles was an incredibly smart and useful feature. Defining 'authorizer' and 'filter' allows you to stack all sorts of independent apps - responder provides data, filter does rendering, authorizer is SSO, for example.

Wprth mentioning that Openbsd does have fastcgi support in it's httpd server, but only supports the responder role

[jorams]

I'd say it has a tremendous amount of traction. One of the primary execution environments for PHP is php-fpm, which is PHP for FastCGI.

[petee]

Yes, but still just a responder role. Not many servers support all the roles, which is the part I find most useful. I only recall hearing of one implementation from a well known company that supported filters and authorizers, and was from a while back; I also haven't looked into it in a number of years and really can't remember