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8742	Windows support of FastCGI feature	anonymous	nobody	"Django FastCGI cannot be used on Windows, and possibly other non-Unix environments.

Currently the FastCGI feature of Django (manage.py runfcgi) relies on the Python library 'flup', which relies on Unix-only socket functions (socket.socketpair(), socket.fromfd(), etc.) making it impossible to use the FastCGI feature of Django on non-Unix envs like Windows, and hence, making it impossible to serve Django with non-Apache (non-mod_python) httpds like lighttpd on non-Unix envs.

Possible solutions: The function socketpair() is unofficially implemented on Windows by a recipe. (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/525487/) Committing this patch to the flup project is not a hard work. However, the function fromfd() has nothing like that. There is a patch enabling its Windows use (http://bugs.python.org/issue1378) but the patch is not yet applied on the Windows release, even on Python 2.6b2. Rewriting the FastCGI feature with python-fastcgi (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-fastcgi) could be a more work than flup, but then the feature can support Windows.

Unix environments, especially GNU/Linux, is of course better than Windows to be used as a web server, but there are some situations where Windows and FastCGI have to be used. It would be good to have Django FastCGI available on Windows."		closed	Uncategorized	dev		invalid			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0