legacy-cgi
Fork of the standard library cgi and cgitb modules, being deprecated in PEP-594 (by jackrosenthal)
cbin
Minimalist pastebin server. (by gsliepen)
| legacy-cgi | cbin | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
| 48 | 4 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.4 | - | |
| 8 months ago | over 8 years ago | |
| Python | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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legacy-cgi
Posts with mentions or reviews of legacy-cgi.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-05.
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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
Here's the justification for removing cgi - https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi
Amusingly that links to https://peps.python.org/pep-0206/ from 14th July 2000 (25 years ago!) which, even back then, described the cgi package as "designed poorly and are now near-impossible to fix".
Looks like the https://github.com/jackrosenthal/legacy-cgi package provides a drop-in replacement for the standard library module.
cbin
Posts with mentions or reviews of cbin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-05.
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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
Indeed. There is no reason why CGI would need shells or scripting languages though, you can just write them in any programming language. It's not that hard; I wrote this pastebin clone in C: https://github.com/gsliepen/cbin/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing legacy-cgi and cbin you can also consider the following projects:
kvmserver - Fast per-request isolation for Linux executables with TinyKVM
staticpatch-core
istio - Connect, secure, control, and observe services.