Web server executing Python scripts

[dsavitsk]

just to give a different point of view :-)
while iis may be insecure, ms is on to something with the asp thing (or did
a good job copying php/coldfusion/jsp etc).  if you are on an intranet and
security is less of an issue, asp is really easy and runs a bit faster than
cgi.  there are also asp plug-ins for apache (www.halcyionsoft.com and
www.chilisoft.com) that are sometimes free, sometimes not depending on what
you are doing etc. i'm not sure if these will allow PythonScript, but it
might be worth looking into.
doug

"Steven D. Arnold" <stevena at neosynapse.net> wrote in message
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> At 08:24 PM 6/30/2000 +0200, Pieter Claerhout wrote:
>
> >What do you think would be the best idea?
> >- Use whatever webbrowser with CGI-scripting
>
> I would use apache and either CGI or mod-python, more likely the latter.
>
>
> >- Use MS IIS with ASP (and Python)
>
> IIS is quite probably the most insecure server on the Internet.  In
> addition, I don't like the closed nature of the system, I don't trust MS
to
> introduce the features I want/need (where I can introduce them myself in
> Apache), and I don't want to depend on MS's support services to solve
> problems that only they can fix because only they have the source.
>
>
> >- Use Zope to build the whole system?
>
> I don't know enough about Zope to give an answer from personal experience
> here.  I've heard many good things about Zope; I've also heard that the
> docs are poor and the learning curve steep.  I have faith in the speed and
> flexibility of Apache, where (to me) Zope is an unknown in these regards;
> are there any benchmarks?
>
>
> steve
>
>
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