how robust is (CGIHTTPServer )

[Ryan Paul]

On Sat, 08 May 2004 21:02:29 -0400, pxlpluker wrote:

>     i was looking at twisted but it appears to be WAY beyond my megar 
> skills at this point.
> so i think CGIHTTPServer will fit my needs if it is pretty stable.
> I have a small python cgi that i was building and i had this great idea 
> of having the cgi server kinda rolled into it for various portability 
> reasons and maybe some future features that would not have apache to 
> realy on.
> 
> Fred

When faced with a frustrating deployment scenario, I too considered this
possibility. The standard CGIHTTPServer is really more of a
testing/debugging mechanism. I found that the 'Twistd' python network app
framework met my needs better than the CGIHTTPServer module. It really
depends on how much traffic you plan on dealing with.