replacing ASP/VBScript with Python

[Peter Maas]

I have inherited an extremely messy ASP/VBScript application which
is a pain for me to support. Now the customer is thinking about a
redesign. I'd like to rewrite the whole thing in Python but the app
has to meet some conditions like

- IIS frontend
- MSSQL db server
- Win32 authentication
- No 'ugly' URLs like http://server/cgi-bin/frontend.cgi?main.py
- Performance: intranet with ~ 1000 users

My personal preferences:

- I'd rather do this in plain Python than using e.g. Zope because I
   fear the additional complexity of handling Zope and make it seam-
   lessly work with IIS.
- I'd like to do session handling in Python because ASP's session
   object is quite limited and some of the ASP app's mess is caused
   by trying to use it for compound data type storage. OTOH I could
   pickle Python objects to a string and store that in an ASP session.

Thanks for any help.

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