Simplest FastCGI-server

We want to build simplest FastCGI-server. Assumed that we already have a web-server (for example, Apache with mod_fastcgi module).

Solution

We have to install direct-fastcgi package, and after that:

module Main where

import Control.Concurrent (forkIO)
import Network.FastCGI

handleRequest :: FastCGI ()
handleRequest = do
    setResponseHeaderSource HttpContentType "application/json" 
    fPutStr "{ \"Hello from\": \"Haskell world!\" }"

main :: IO ()
main = acceptLoop forkIO handleRequest

After building, copy the executable in your DocumentRoot and go to the server (via your configured alias). The result in the browser will be:

{ "Hello from": "Haskell world!" }

Header info:

Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 19:28:05 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 43
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/json

200 OK

That's all.

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