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Re:Websocketd by paulddraper on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:05PM (#19004705)
> modern HTTP connections tend to be at least a little bit long lasting

But CGI doesn't fork per TCP connection; it forks per HTTP request/response.

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Re:Websocketd by jchw on Saturday January 26, 2019 @12:04AM (#19004858)
True, but as far as I know none of the major HTTP servers use forking anymore either. I believe there was a time when forking per connection was fairly standard for servers.
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