How to serve a WSGI application via CGI

March 10 2009CGI has a bad reputation. Its slow performance disqualify it for most demanding tasks; nobody would think of serving thousands of pages per seconds via CGI. But when performance doesn’t matter, it can still be useful. CGI is easy to deploy, most HTTP servers fully support it, and writing a minimal script only takes a few lines: print 'Content-type: text/plain' print print 'Hello World