[Mailman-Developers] HTTPRunner.py (was Re: LMTPRunner.py)

[Tokio Kikuchi]

Barry Warsaw wrote:

> Actually, something that emf mentioned a while ago: we should adapt  
> the current web interface to WSGI and then perhaps use  
> wsgiref.simple_server():
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-wsgiref.simpleserver.html

Hi,

I've checked in HTTPRunner.py using this simple server and wsgi_app.py 
for wrapping mailman cgi in wsgi environment.  I fear I may be doing 
wrong things but it should be a proof that right things can be done.

There are some glitches in admin authentication interfaces: e.g., if I 
want to enter password in http://server/mailman/admin/listname, then I'm 
redirected to http://server/admin/admin/listname.  Authentication at 
http://server/mailman/admin/listname/general works but the redirected 
URL becomes http://server/mailman/admin/listname/admin/listname/general.

> 
> Of course, this comes with Python 2.5, but I believe is available as  
> a distutils package for Python 2.4.  The advantage is not only that  
> we can do away with the setgid stuff, but that our web interface  
> (even if nothing else is rewritten) can be dropped into any WSGI  
> compliant framework.  In theory.  I haven't actually tried any of  
> that yet, but currently that's the directly I'm thinking 2.2 should  
> move to.
> 
> (But yes, that does probably mean we could include a  
> wsgiref.simple_server()-based runner of sorts, although that's going  
> to be a bit of a misnomer :)
> 
> - -Barry
> 
Cheers,

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