Python Server Pages or Physician Heal Thyself

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

"Brian Kelley" <bkelley at wi.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:3B56F4CE.BDF66DA8 at wi.mit.edu...
> Allright, I just discovered here
> http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.python/web_python.html
> that there are two different entities named Python Server Pages.  I
was
> referring to Kiby Andell's version here
http://www.ciobriefings.com/psp/
>
> Anyway, I stumbled across the web topics section at python.org
> http://www.python.org/topics/web and discovered a third (?) so-called
> python server pages from Webware http://webware.sourceforge.net/
>
> So I'll mention my REAL problem :)  I am planning on using a
particular
> Java applet on a client side Macintosh.  Unfortunately it only runs
under
> the newly released Macintosh Java RunTime and the current MJR
netscape
> plugin from mozilla doesn't allow JavaScript to Java calls.  I was
hoping
> that using a some variant of Python Server Pages with Jython would
give me
> this functionality back.  So the question is which to use?
No it will not. Applets and javascript code run on the clients machine,
while python
serverpages code run on the server side. There is no way they can
communicate
other than through standard HTTP, or some 'custom' protocol you invent,
or maybe
corba, xmlrpc et.c.