[Webware-discuss] Webware-0.4.1 - WebKit/fcgi.py

[Joe V. A. <van...@at...>]

I'm using Python 1.5.2 on Redhat 6.2, and am trying to use FastCGI with
Webware-0.4.1

I'm just trying out Webware and got the 'OneShot' adapter working.  Now,
I want to try out FastCGI.  I've built the FastCGI loadable module for
Apache, and tried to use FCGIAdapter.py.

Apache's server log shows that FCGIAdapter failed on
'import fcgi'

I didn't see any indication that I was supposed to install this Python
module, and it doesn't appear that FCGIAdapter.py sets its 'sys.path' to
include /<prefix>/WebKit.  So, I copied fcgi.py to
/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages.

Also, I didn't see the documentation on what <prefix>WebKit/address.text
should contain.  Seems like you should provide a default version of this
file.

Once I generated address.text, containing:
 localhost:8086 

I then invoked FCGIAdapter.fcgi

My browser showed:
ERROR

Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/FCGIAdaptor.fcgi", line 130, in FCGICallback
    s.send(dumps(dict))
ValueError: unmarshallable object

You can't call this from the command-line 
------------------------------------------------

Why can't 'dict' be marshalled, so it can be sent on a socket?


The error handling in AppServer could be improved, since this error in
FCGIAdapter caused an error in AppServer.
--------------------------------------------------

BEGIN REQUEST
Mon Oct  9 18:45:51 2000
receiving request from <socket object, fd=7, family=2, type=1,
protocol=0>
received 0 bytes
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "/var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py",
line 376, in __bootstrap
    self.run()
  File "/var/tmp/python/python-root/usr/lib/python1.5/threading.py",
line 364, in run
    apply(self.__target, self.__args, self.__kwargs)
  File "ThreadedAppServer.py", line 121, in threadloop
    rh.handleRequest()
  File "ThreadedAppServer.py", line 257, in handleRequest
    transaction = self.server._app.dispatchRawRequest(dict)
NameError: dict
-----------------------------------------------------

When I look at the ThreadedAppServer.py, 'dict' only gets set if 'data'
exists, but the statement:

transaction = self.server._app.dispatchRawRequest(dict) 

uses 'dict', even if 'dict' isn't set.

What am I doing wrong, or is there 



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Joe VanAndel  	          
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