CGI speedup strategies

[Skip Montanaro]

    Ian> Has anyone tried actually implementing a Python webserver which
    Ian> just starts a new thread and runs a piece of Python code in it
    Ian> every time someone makes a HTTP request?  This server could then
    Ian> cache any objects (such as files, or SQL connections) in memory to
    Ian> be used by any Python scripts (this would obviously require all
    Ian> code to be thread-safe).

Ian,

This is precisely what I do on Musi-Cal.  I run Apache with the proxy and
rewrite modules enabled.  I then have a ZServer (Zope's web server layered
atop Medusa) listening to port 9673 of 127.0.0.2.  The appropriate types of
requests to Apache get routed to the ZServer.  It is then free to contact
the real database server, do SSI-type stuff on files, cache results, yadda,
yadda, yadda.

As an aside, communication between my ZServer and my database server is
XML-RPC.  The database server also receives requests from Perl and Java
clients.  It's not perfect (in particular, we seem to have problems with
character encodings at the moment), but it does work.

you-want-servers?-i-got-servers-ly y'rs

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