replacing ASP/VBScript with Python

[Tim Golden]

[Peter Maas]
| 
| Peter Maas schrieb:
| > 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
| 
| In the meantime I have searched the internet and found plenty 
| of options:
| 
| - plain cgi with fastcgi and mod_rewrite for IIS to transform the URL
| - quixote cgi with fastcgi and mod_rewrite
| - Webware + wkcgi
| - Python ASP (registering Python with Pywin32 as ASP language)
| - mxODBC + SQL ODBC driver
| - pyADO + SQL MDAC driver

There has also been noise lately about an ISAPI-Python binding
(contributed via Mark Hammond of pywin32 fame, I think) and a
WSGI implementation of same. Haven't used either, and haven't
got time to trawl for links at the mo, but I'm fairly certain
the latest pywin32 has the core stuff.

TJG

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