Webware for Python

On 09:42 Wed 13 Apr     , michelts wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> I trying wsgikit, I could follow the docs with sucess but I have some
> questions:
> 
> - Is there an adapter like mod_webkit2 wsgikit? 

Not yet. Right now you have to proxy requests if you want to put it
behind Apache. mod_scgi and mod_python both have the potential to run
WSGI frameworks, but there's noting in the source tree for those yet.

Some nifty things can be done with WSGI in conjunction with Twisted
vhosts, which you may want to try:

http://eradman.com/app/article?code=twisted2

> - Is there a way to insert the session cookie on the url (like the
> AutomaticPathSession on webware)?

No.

> - Are there much people using it in daily projects?

I'm using it on a couple of sites now, including an intranet application
for the company I work for. I don't know who else is using it at the
moment.

-- 
Eric Radman

michelts wrote:
> Hi guys!
> 
> I trying wsgikit, I could follow the docs with sucess but I have some questions:
> 
> - Is there an adapter like mod_webkit2 wsgikit? 

This is more of a server issue, though I want to add glue to wsgikit for 
a useful set of servers.  This SCGI server would probably be the best 
direction for this at this point: 
http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/wsgi/README.html -- there's also an 
SCGI server at http://www.saddi.com/software/py-lib/#scgi

There's nothing particularly special about mod_webkit, it's essentially 
equivalent to scgi.  I think it would be convenient if Twisted also 
supported one of these protocols, but I don't believe it does right now.

> - Is there a way to insert the session cookie on the url (like the
> AutomaticPathSession on webware)?

It would require a little hacking, but the basic hooks are there.  If 
you put a urlparser_hook function in your __init__.py, you could do:

def urlparser_hook(environ):
     session_var, rest = 
wsgilib.path_info_split(environ.get('PATH_INFO', ''))
     if session_var and session_var.startswith('SID='):
         environ['wsgikit.session_id'] = session_var
         environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] += session_var
         environ['PATH_INFO'] = rest

*But* right now the session middleware won't look for that 
'wsgikit.session_id' variable.  That would be a useful addition there. 
There are problems with the session code anyway.  I'd like to use 
http://www.saddi.com/software/py-lib/#Session in lieu of the code that's 
currently in there.

> - Are there much people using it in daily projects?

I'm not sure.  I am using it for one new project at work, and planning 
on using it for another that's coming up, though the majority of our 
Webware code is using 0.8.1.  WSGIKit includes a fair number of tests, 
and I've encountered very few problems in my own use.

-- 
Ian Bicking  /  ianb@...  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org