Re: [Webware-discuss] wsgikit

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

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.

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