More Rewrite Request Within SocketServer?

[John Abel]

Paul Rubin wrote:

>John Abel <jabel at plus.net> writes:
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>>OK, I'm guessing what I was after ( see below ) isn't possible.  Does
>>anyone know of an easy way of having verify_request inform the request
>>handler of certain events, say client is unauthorised?  I thought of
>>having it set a flag, and referring to it from the handler class (
>>self.server.hostAllowed for example ), but that wouldn't work quite
>>right in a threaded server.
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>I'd think you could do that.  Isn't the new thread already started
>when the verify method runs?
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Unfortunately not.  verify_request is called before process_request 
which launches the thread ( in the ThreadingMixIn version ).  Unless I 
passed the flag as an argument to the thread, and then had it reset.  
Hmmmmm, worth thinking about,

J