web front-end, Python back end?

[Max Khesin]

also: another alternative (perhaps more secure) - can't you use pipes to
redirect the cgi request to a python server?

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"Max Khesin" <max at cNOvSisiPonAtecMh.com> wrote in message
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> Steve,
> (i am probably missing somehting, but) what's the advantage of having
> Twisted in the loop at all? Python can start a standalone XMLPRC server
> using xmlrpclib, no?
> As a side issue, what are the security implications of running xmlrpc? Is
> there a way to make sure the protocol cannot be accessed from the
'outside'?
>
> thanks,
>
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> "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote in message
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> > "Heiko Wundram" <heiko at ph0enix.homelinux.org> wrote in message
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> > Quoting Guy Middleton <guy at obstruction-no-spam.com>:
> >
> > > The system on which it is running already has PHP installed, so I
> thought
> > I
> > > could write some kind of PHP front end.  Is this a common approach?
We
> > are
> > > favouring PHP because the maintenance issues, so that we can have the
> same
> > > person (who is not familiar with Python) support this and the existing
> PHP
> > > applications.
> >
> > I'm doing the same thing here too... We have a PHP program, which I
> recently
> > extended in ways that seemed undoable in Python, and that's why I wrote
a
> > Python backend for the PHP program. The Python backend runs using
Twisted,
> > and serves pages as XMLRPC, which the PHP program can query. In case you
> > [...]
> > I'd be very surprised if Python can't do whatever you chose PHP for.
Would
> > you maybe tell us what you found Python incapable of?
> >
> > regards
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> >
> >
> >
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