[meta-sig] Another try at a Python Web SIG?
Laura Creighton
lac at strakt.com
Fri Sep 12 06:05:58 EDT 2003
In a message of Thu, 11 Sep 2003 16:14:02 PDT, Guido van Rossum writes:
>> I know this was just discussed a few months ago, but I'm very
>> interested in getting a Web SIG together or reinvigorated or whatever
>> it takes. The current Web support in Python is somewhat embarassingly
>> patchy, given the neatness of the rest of the system.
>
>Right. I just had to pick an app server technology for a small
>project here, and found it surprisingly hard to figure out what's out
>there.
>
>> My specific thinking is about three things:
>>
>> 1) Add SSL server-side support to the "socket" module. This will
>> include some way of managing certificates. Probably modelled
>> strongly after the way we did it in ILU, if I do it :-).
>
>Cool -- this is another thing that I could use in my new job. I think
>there's a 3rd party package that does this, though. (Can't remember
>the name right now.) But we ought to have more complete OpenSSL
>wrapeprs in the standard library.
We have one. http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/ Manages crtificates great.
Martin Sjögren wrote it.
School has started, so he is back being a csc grad student, but you
can still mail him here. I've cc'd him on this.
Laura
>
>> 2) Update the "httplib" module to include all of the client-side
>> functionality available in the Linux "curl" program (a reasonable
>> checklist, I think, but am open to better suggestions).
>
>I don't know curl and have no big needs in this area, but httplib
>certainly shows its age, despite having been rewritten once already.
>
>> 3) Replace/extend the BaseHTTPServer and SimpleHTTPServer modules with
>> an extended webserver module which provides at least the
>> functionality in Medusa.
>
>Good idea. I think there may be some useful stuff in Zope that we
>might be able to incorporate.
>
>> I'd be happy to work in #1 (starting with a PEP, I think) and provide
>> help with #2 and #3, if others would like to pitch in. I don't want
>> to collide with others who are working on this already, and think a
>> SIG would be a good way to coordinate efforts.
>
>If you want to coordinate the SIG, I'll join as an observer.
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>
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