multitask http server (single-process multi-connection HTTP server)

[geremy condra]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM, lkcl <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> for several reasons, i'm doing a cooperative multi-tasking HTTP
> server:
>  git clone git://pyjs.org/git/multitaskhttpd.git
>
> there probably exist perfectly good web frameworks that are capable of
> doing this sort of thing: i feel certain that twisted is one of them.
> however, the original author of rtmplite decided to rip twisted out
> and to use multitask.py and i'm one of those strange people that also
> likes the idea of using 900 lines of awesome elegant code rather than
> tens of thousands of constantly-moving-target.
>
> one of the things that's slightly unfortunate is that i'm going to
> have to copy SimpleHTTPServer.py and slightly modify it;
> CGIHTTPServer.py as well.  this is Generally Bad Practice.
>
> can anyone think of a way of monkey-patching or otherwise using
> SimpleHTTPRequestHandler and CGIHTTPRequestHandler and overriding the
> base class from which those two are derived?
>
> i have had to pull bits out of BaseHTTPRequestHandler to make them use
> the "yield" logic of multitask.py already, which was painful enough.
>
> ideas, anyone?
>
> l.

I may not be fully understanding what you're doing, but is there a
reason that one of the mixins can't be used?

Geremy Condra