Advice for Python and Web Server/Services?

[Ronald Davis]

On Sunday 26 March 2006 5:00 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> Any possibility you need to specify an option on the socket
> connections to reuse-sockets without the normal time-out?

The problem turned out to be keep-alive. Apparently, Comcast is limiting my 
inbound connections. Apache keeps the connections alive so it works fine. The 
Python servers don't support keep-alive and are using up the available 
connections too quickly.

I'm now using Apache as a proxy to the Python server and it works well.

Thanks for the response.

> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:55:12 -0500, Ron Davis <wiff at comcast.net>
>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> > I've looked in to fastcgi and mod_python but I'm not sure either is what
> > I need. What I want is for my Python program to be polling the web
> > services 24/7 and Apache to serve static pages by itself but call a
> > function in my already running Python program for files with a certain
> > extension (.xml for example).
>
> 	I think you'll first need to disconnect the two sides... The program
> doing the polling has to run completely stand-alone from your own
> web-server.  I also think you'll need to create some independent
> (file-system?) store which the polling program can write to; so your web
> server page can do the selected retrieval -- but since you don't want a
> database capable of concurrent access... The polling program needs to
> include an asynchronous or threaded scheme with a local socket so the
> web server (CGI) process can connect to it and requests the poller to
> return the data.
>
> > Ideally, I'd like to figure out why the Python servers are having
> > problems. This is a very low volume system so straight Python would be
> > great if I can get it working.
>
> 	Any possibility you need to specify an option on the socket
> connections to reuse-sockets without the normal time-out?
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