Webware for Python

Ian Bicking wrote:
> To experiment with the feature set, as opposed to the actual speed, it
> might be best to start with WebKit.cgi (or probably just Adapter.py),
> and then port to mod_webkit.  Actually, it might work okay for speed
> too, since you'd still have balancing -- the front box would just have
> to be beefier.

The mod_python adapter would also be a nice place to do these experiments --
it's not as fast as mod_webkit but you'll still get much better speed than
with WebKit.cgi and the ease of working with Python code instead of C code.

> 
> There was talk of associating users with particular instances of the
> AppServer, via the SID, so that session data didn't have to 
> be shared. 
> This would be a nice feature, and probably pretty easy to implement in
> Adapter.py.

From the WebKit user's guide:

	SessionPrefix   = None 
	This setting can be used to prefix the session IDs with a string.
Possible values are None (don't use a prefix), "hostname" (use the hostname
as the prefix), or any other string (use that string as the prefix). Why
would you want to use this? It can be used along with some mod_rewrite magic
to do simple load balancing with session affinity. 

I put this in a few months ago.  As the documentation says, I intended it to
be used with a clever set of mod_rewrite rules (which I never got around to
actually writing) to do load balancing.  It could certainly also be used by
an adapter.


- Geoff