fcgi.py

[Victor Muslin]

I just found an old posting that says that socket.fromfd() is not
implemented on Windows platform (though Python documentation does not
say so). Is there a FastCGI solution for Python for WindowsNT???

Thanks.

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 00:32:19 GMT, victor at prodigy.net (Victor Muslin)
wrote:

>Sorry for newbie questions, but I ran into a couple of problems with
>fcgi.py. I am using Python 1.5.2 on WindowsNT 4.0.
>
>1) I tried to run fcgi.py from the command line (to exercise its
>_test() function) and received the following error message:
>
>	D:/Apps/apache/cgi-bin> fcgi.py
>	Exception exceptions.AttributeError: 'err' in <method
>FCGI.__del__ of FCGI instance at 82a220> ignored
>
>The traceback was:
>
>	Traceback (innermost last):
>	  File "fcgi.py", line 386, in _test
>	    req = Accept()
>	  File "fcgi.py", line 231, in __init__
>	    _startup()
>	  File "fcgi.py", line 367, in _startup
>	    s=socket.fromfd(sys.stdin.fileno(), socket.AF_INET,
>	AttributeError: fromfd
>
>Seems that the socket module for WindowsNT Python 1.5.2 does not have
>fromfd() method.
>
>Here's the proof (at least for my Python installation):
>
>>>> pprint.pprint(dir(socket))
>['AF_INET',
> 'INADDR_ALLHOSTS_GROUP',
> 'INADDR_ANY',
> 'INADDR_BROADCAST',
> 'INADDR_LOOPBACK',
> 'INADDR_MAX_LOCAL_GROUP',
> 'INADDR_NONE',
> 'INADDR_UNSPEC_GROUP',
> 'IPPORT_RESERVED',
> 'IPPORT_USERRESERVED',
> 'IPPROTO_GGP',
> 'IPPROTO_ICMP',
> 'IPPROTO_IDP',
> 'IPPROTO_IGMP',
> 'IPPROTO_IP',
> 'IPPROTO_MAX',
> 'IPPROTO_ND',
> 'IPPROTO_PUP',
> 'IPPROTO_RAW',
> 'IPPROTO_TCP',
> 'IPPROTO_UDP',
> 'IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP',
> 'IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP',
> 'IP_MULTICAST_IF',
> 'IP_MULTICAST_LOOP',
> 'IP_MULTICAST_TTL',
> 'IP_OPTIONS',
> 'IP_TOS',
> 'IP_TTL',
> 'MSG_DONTROUTE',
> 'MSG_OOB',
> 'MSG_PEEK',
> 'SOCK_DGRAM',
> 'SOCK_RAW',
> 'SOCK_RDM',
> 'SOCK_SEQPACKET',
> 'SOCK_STREAM',
> 'SOL_SOCKET',
> 'SOMAXCONN',
> 'SO_ACCEPTCONN',
> 'SO_BROADCAST',
> 'SO_DEBUG',
> 'SO_DONTROUTE',
> 'SO_ERROR',
> 'SO_KEEPALIVE',
> 'SO_LINGER',
> 'SO_OOBINLINE',
> 'SO_RCVBUF',
> 'SO_RCVLOWAT',
> 'SO_RCVTIMEO',
> 'SO_REUSEADDR',
> 'SO_SNDBUF',
> 'SO_SNDLOWAT',
> 'SO_SNDTIMEO',
> 'SO_TYPE',
> 'SO_USELOOPBACK',
> 'SocketType',
> '__builtins__',
> '__doc__',
> '__file__',
> '__name__',
> '_fileobject',
> '_realsocketcall',
> '_socketobject',
> 'error',
> 'errorTab',
> 'gethostbyaddr',
> 'gethostbyname',
> 'gethostbyname_ex',
> 'gethostname',
> 'getprotobyname',
> 'getservbyname',
> 'htonl',
> 'htons',
> 'ntohl',
> 'ntohs',
> 'socket']
>>>>
>
>socket.fromfd() method is called in the fcgi._startup() function,
>which is called in the constructor of FCGI object. Since
>fcgi._startup() function is catching only socket.error exceptions
>instead of AttributeError exception the program dumps.
>
>If AttributeError except clause is added immediately after the
>socket.error() in fcgi._startup():
>
>    except AttributeError:
>            global _isFCGI
>            _isFCGI = 0
>            return
>
>then the program works fine.
>
>Is there something I am doing wrong or is there something wrong with
>my Python installation?
>
>2) I was wondering whether it is possible to use fcgi.py based
>programs with Apache using cgi-fcgi brdige. If so, how would one
>configure cgi-fcgi to know to launch a python interpreter with a
>specific program to interpret? If there is an example it would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks