Re: [Webware-devel] A few questions

[Geoffrey T. <gta...@me...>]

On Monday December 17, 2001 05:36 pm, Russell Blank wrote:
> In the next few weeks, I am about to go live with a project that was
> developed using webware.  I have a few questions that I have been
> accumulating:
>
> 1.  Can I shut off access to the webware default/admin pages?

You can simply remove the Admin context from the list of contexts in your 
Application.config.

> 2.  How does 	'UseAutomaticPathSessions':     1, work?  If I change the
> option to 1 I get the following error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):   File "WebKit\Application.py", line
> 346, in dispatchRequest     self.handleMissingPathSession(transaction)  
> File "WebKit\Application.py", line 487, in handleMissingPathSession     if
> request.queryString():   File "WebKit\HTTPRequest.py", line 448, in
> queryString     return self._environ['QUERY_STRING'] KeyError: QUERY_STRING

Which adapter are you using when you see this error?

> 3.  What is faster and more secure wkcgi.exe or using ISAPI through IIS? 4.
>  When I use wkcgi.exe and I do not have the appserver running (by mistake),
> my machine freezes and a processes call wkcgi.exe is peaked at 99% CPU
> usage.  When I try to kill this process, I am denied access?   Any
> thoughts?
> My Environment is:  Windows 2000 and IIS Server 5.0 using Webware 0.6 (not
> 6 beta)

ISAPI is faster, but last time I checked it had memory leaks, so wkcgi.exe 
may be a better solution.  But it certainly shouldn't get stuck in an 
infinite loop if it can't contact the appserver.  The unfortunate fact is, 
neither the ISAPI interface nor wkcgi.exe are solid, stable, proven solutions 
at this point.

I've added this bug report to the Sourceforge bug tracker, and hopefully the 
author (Jay Love) can take a look at it soon.  If you have a C compiler handy 
you could also look into it yourself.

But certainly, if you don't need the additional speed, your most solid 
solution on IIS is definitely to use WebKit.cgi.  You could convert it to an 
EXE using py2exe or Installer to gain a small amount of additional speed.

- Geoff