Is httpdapy ready for primetime?

[Erno Kuusela]

On 24 Oct 1999 13:24:16 -0400, Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> wrote:
>I've been reading this thread with interest.  In general, I like the
>fact that httpdapy re-uses the same interpreter similarly to the way
>that mod_perl does it, and for the types of applications I write, that
>indeed is quite worthwhile.  I'd rather have that capability and then
>do my own forks and execs when I really want to, than to be running
>under the constraint where I could never re-use an existing
>interpreter, as in PyApache.  And since I have a private site where I
>do all the programming, API compatibiluty with CGI is not important to
>me.

yes. any big python program is too slow with cgi. there are
other solutions to this than httpdapy.
some time ago i used bobo and pcgi. bobo is now a part
of zope, but iirc they still package it separately,
under the name ZPublisher. it isn't cgi-compatible either,
it works like

class Quux:
	def mymethod(self, foo, bar). ...
quux = quux()
and then you call it with an url, like
http://somewhere/bobo/quux/mymethod?foo=4&bar=barney. it's pretty
neat.


then therre is fastcgi, which is a general mechanism for
this, there is a fastcgi module for apache, and then
there are fastcgi modules for eg perl and python. i
think there is a c library too. see http://www.fastcgi.com

i just found an interesting python fastcgi page:
http://www.suxers.de/python/fcgi.htm

quote:
      The wrapper was written to use Robin Dunn´s fcgi.py module in a
      multi-threaded Python program. The idea is to have one single
      persistent Python server that handles all requests.  Instead of
      serializing all requests this wrapper spawns a new thread for
      every incoming request.

>And since we're discussing httpdapy, I'd also like to raise a related
>issue: I have never been able to get httpdapy to properly install
>under my particular Apache server set-up.  I'm wondering if there's
>anyone who has been able to get httpdapy up and running under the
>following configuration:
>
>  Python 1.5.2
>  Apache 1.3.9 with the following modules:
>    mod_perl 1.21 (non-DSO)
>    php4 (DSO)
>

i had troubles too, and ended up downgading my apache. no idea what the
problem is - apache segfaulted when trying to invoke httpdapi.

this occurred under the debian gnu/linux unstable version
(potato). it works fine with stable.


   -- erno

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