ActivePython2.0 - Server Side objects for ASP problem

[gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk]

In article <3A5DD081.F37275A at gte.net>, sandj.williams at gte.net (Steve 
Williams) wrote:

> Danger Will Robinson!!
> 
> You can, indeed, write and install a COM object on the server before 
> bedtime,
> but you might be up all night getting your client to talk to it.  Some 
> pitfalls:
> 
> 1)    The client doesn't have Python installed.  It uses MS Access or 
> VB or
> Excel or Word.  How do you register your COM server on the client?   
> Whose
> classid/appid do you use?  Light a taper and go down into the regedit 
> dungeon.

Dude!  The subject line says "Server Side objects".  ASP can indeed call 
server side objects.  The client doesn't have to know anything about them.

The following may well be problems, but I've not had much trouble with 
Python COM servers.  Now DCOM, that's a different kettle of ball games ...

> 2)    When you try to use the COM object you get 'Permission Denied'.  
> Time to
> read a ton of MS Q documents and maybe talk to an unfriendly and 
> ignorant NT
> administrator.
> 
> 3)    When you try to use the COM object, you get 'ActiveX can't 
> create. . .'.
> Time for some more bedtime reading.
> 
> 5)    You call your friends and they say "I've never had that problem, 
> maybe you
> should install MTS. . ."