Python Web Programming - looking for examples of solid high-traffic sites

[Daniel Nogradi]

> > >> For example, it HAS been published elsewhere that YouTube uses lighttpd,
> > >> not Apache: <http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/PoweredByLighttpd>.
> > >
> > > How do you explain these, then:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/results.xxx
> > > http://www.youtube.com/results.php
> > > http://www.youtube.com/results.py
> >
> > Server signature is usually configurable.
>
> Yeah, but I don't know why it's configured it that way.  A good example
> of a question that looks perfectly appropriate for YouTube's OSCON
> session.

Actually, the fact that http://www.youtube.com/results.php returns
legitimate content might be explainable by the fact that youtube was
started as a PHP app so they might provide this URL for backward
compatibility although today there is no PHP at all. See the abstract
of Mike Solomon's OSCON talk: "YouTube began as a small PHP
application. [...]"
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2007/view/e_sess/13435