how robust is (CGIHTTPServer )

Wilk wilkSPAM at OUTflibuste.net
Tue May 11 04:37:06 EDT 2004


pxlpluker <pxlpluker at cfl.rr.com> writes:

> Wilk wrote:
>
>>pxlpluker <pxlpluker at cfl.rr.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>    i was looking at twisted but it appears to be WAY beyond my megar
>>>skills at this point.
>>>so i think CGIHTTPServer will fit my needs if it is pretty stable.
>>>I have a small python cgi that i was building and i had this great
>>>idea of having the cgi server kinda rolled into it for various
>>>portability reasons and maybe some future features that would not have
>>>apache to realy on.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>If you want to have your own server, you don't need CGI, you can start
>>from BaseHTTPServer, it's very robust. I use it in production.
>>CGIHTTPServer and SimpleHTTPServer are good examples to show how to
>>expand BaseHTTPServer.
>>
>>
> I think i need cgi to run python scripts though. I am allowing file
> upload with some user management/accounts.

Everything you can do with cgi can be done without...

> What kind of traffic does your site get?

It's web-applications in intranet with database. There is one, for
example, used in a factory, 24h/24 since two years.

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Wilk - http://flibuste.net



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