How to Keep-Alive CGI?

General
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Hi!

I’m trying to improve the performance of my application and checked on gtmatrix.com that my site needs to “keep-alive” to get better performance.

How can I keep my CGI alive?

Alex

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Did you ask a searchengine before you asked here, because this is not related to Xojo. :smiley:
This Link may help: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/keep-alive.html

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I know that.

But when i enable it on htaccess, i get a 500 internal server error.

That’s why i’m asking.

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Did you try editing your Apache config file?

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In the App.Open event,

App.AutoQuit = False
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[quote=414498:@Greg O’Lone]In the App.Open event,

App.AutoQuit = False

It’s been like this since 2017…

I’m trying to improve the performance on my site. I took a test with gtmetrix
msi test

It says that keep-alive is not turned on. i don’t know if it’s a bug on site, or i need to do anything different.

Any clue?

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Ok, we’re talking about two different things.

App.AutoQuit prevents the binary application from ever quitting.

The Keep-Alive header has to do with persistent connections when dealing with a web server.

Now, since you are working with a CGI app, the responsibility for this falls to the web server app (Apache, IIS, etc) which actually talks to the browser.

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Some info about apache keep alive (also for cgi)
http://www.auburn.edu/docs/apache/keepalive.html

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This is what gtmetrix say about keep-alive:

[quote][h]Enabling Keep-Alive connections in Apache[/h]

Apache enables Keep-Alive connections by default, however you can explicitly turn them on by adding the following line to your httpd.conf file.

Having said that, if your site is running on a shared host, you probably won’t have access to httpd.conf and will therefore have to live with whichever setting your hosting provider has chosen. Contrary to what some websites suggest, adding a Header set Connection keep-alive directive to your .htaccess file will not actually enable Keep-Alive connections, but it will send browsers misleading information about the server’s capabilities.[/quote]

I guess you need access to your apache httpd.conf and the .htaccess directive will not help you.

And from Derk’s link:

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[quote=414473:@Sascha S]Did you ask a searchengine before you asked here, because this is not related to Xojo. :smiley:
This Link may help: https://varvy.com/pagespeed/keep-alive.html[/quote]

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Again :wink:

When i enable it on htaccess, i get a 500 internal server error.

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[quote=415524:@Alexandre Cunha]Again :wink:

When i enable it on htaccess, i get a 500 internal server error.[/quote]
In which case, Apache is not set up to allow that in a htaccess file.