Web server executing Python scripts

[Steven D. Arnold]

At 08:24 PM 6/30/2000 +0200, Pieter Claerhout wrote:

>What do you think would be the best idea?
>- Use whatever webbrowser with CGI-scripting

I would use apache and either CGI or mod-python, more likely the latter.


>- Use MS IIS with ASP (and Python)

IIS is quite probably the most insecure server on the Internet.  In 
addition, I don't like the closed nature of the system, I don't trust MS to 
introduce the features I want/need (where I can introduce them myself in 
Apache), and I don't want to depend on MS's support services to solve 
problems that only they can fix because only they have the source.


>- Use Zope to build the whole system?

I don't know enough about Zope to give an answer from personal experience 
here.  I've heard many good things about Zope; I've also heard that the 
docs are poor and the learning curve steep.  I have faith in the speed and 
flexibility of Apache, where (to me) Zope is an unknown in these regards; 
are there any benchmarks?


steve


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