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in thread FastCGI and EXEs under Windows

CGI::Fast is not the same as FCGI. You'll need both modules. Fortunately, FCGI is available via ppm3. (FCGI implements the low-level bits of the fastcgi protocol; CGI::Fast implements an interface to fastcgi that looks like CGI. CGI::Fast depends on FCGI and uses it internally)

Also, what someone else said about PerlApp with regards to recovering source code. It makes recovery of source code hard - harder than pp, so hard that it can't be done without B::Deparse tricks - but doesn't make it totally impossible.

However, I wouldn't worry about it. Just put into your license text that says that decompiling, disassembling, or reverse engineering the source code is against the license. That's really all you can do.

Frankly, I don't understand the extreme paranoia some people develop with regards to their source code. Maybe I don't code things that are special enough - or sell to clients shady enough - to be that paranoid about it.

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@/=map{[/./g]}qw/.h_nJ Xapou cets krht ele_ r_ra/;
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Re^4: FastCGI and EXEs under Windows
by Stephen Toney (Sexton) on Oct 27, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
    Many thanks for the clarification! It's much appreciated.

    We certainly have a no-decompile/r.e. clause in our contracts. And we trust our clients. But we don't trust some of their other vendors who are competitors in some areas and at times have access to the server. PerlApp makes it that much harder. I don't think it's paranoia.

    Another reason for delivering an EXE is so the clients don't have to acquire and install Perl. In our market many many servers are run by people who wouldn't know how to do this or wouldn't want to.

    Also it's easier for the clients if we deliver a single EXE than make sure each client is up to date on the 20 scripts that comprise the app.

    So there are good arguments for almost anything!

    Thanks again. Stephen
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      Yeah, gotta love the power of pp for that. One exe, no husle, no install required! I love that!
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