[Web-SIG] WSGI adoption

[Peter Hunt]

Perhaps we need to write an ISAPI DLL?


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:56:11 -0800, Robert Brewer <fumanchu at amor.org> wrote:
> Peter Hunt wrote:
> > >It's going slowly but surely, as I can tell from my Googling. I think
> > >we could speed adoption very quickly if we all got together and
> > >created stable, tested, proven, and officialy WSGI gateways.
> 
> and Phillip J. Eby replied:
> > ...
> > That leaves ASP+Python and Zope.
> 
> ASP has at least two large problems:
> 
> 1. IIS, as far as I can tell, has no facility for letting a Python
> application know whether it's being run in a shared process or not (the
> Low, Medium, High settings for "Application Protection"). To find these
> out, we'd either have to make deployers enter the value in their config
> file (and maintain that in sync with IIS), or write some *very* ugly
> registry hacks to get at the application name and read the protection
> level. I'm still not sure the latter can be done. I gave up after a
> couple of days.
> 
> 2. ASP expects each reachable URL to have a valid file on the server.
> That means, if you want your user to access "/myapp.htm", there must be
> a file "myapp.htm" in the root directory of your site (and that folder
> must map the ".htm" extension to asp.dll). If your site needs 100 URL's,
> you need 100 such files physically present. IIRC, an ISAPI .dll can get
> around this, but ASP can't. Not that this can't be worked around; Cation
> (my framework) has a URL dispatcher which will create the files for you
> (they're all boilerplate).
> 
> 
> Robert Brewer
> MIS
> Amor Ministries
> fumanchu at amor.org
>