[ANNOUNCE] Webware for Python 0.5

[Yann Schwartz]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:55:48 -0500, Geoff Talvola
<gtalvola at nameconnector.com> wrote:

>Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
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>One more feature of WebKit/PSP that I _think_ doesn't exist in ASP, but I might be wrong:  The ability to forward a request to another Servlet or PSP purely within the app server (as opposed to redirecting the browser).  This allows you to do things like write a "controller" servlet that examines the request and then forwards to the appropriate servlet or PSP.  It's a nice model for certain types of problems that is really simple to implement in WebKit/PSP, and I think it would be difficult or maybe even 
impossible in ASP.

Actually ASP does. Server.Execute(url) and Server.Transfer(url)
permits just this. But it's an ASP 3.0 feature, available only on IIS5
(Win2k).

On a side note, i've began to play with ASP .NET, and it"s
breathtaking. I'm waiting for a really working release of Python .NET
to use ASP.NET with.
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>On the flip side, one possible advantage of ASP with Python is that you might be able to take advantage of 3rd-party extensions that are designed to only work with ASP.  I don't know if such things exist.  I happen to be using a 3rd-party COM component in my web pages to draw dynamic graphs.  The component was designed for use with Visual Basic and Active Server Pages, but it works great with WebKit too.

3rd party extensions are usually COM components, so it wouldn't be a
problem to use them in "pure" Python with win32 extensions, provided
the COM components doesn't use ASP objects internally  (using native
ASP objects in COM components is not considered a Good Thing, though).