mod_python and css

[John Nagle]

    If you send back a content type of "text/plain", your output
will not be rendered as HTML by a browser; it will just be
displayed as plain text.

    Try "text/html".

				John Nagle

On 6/24/2010 12:19 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 09:10 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote:
>> Hi all,
>
> about your question, no idea.
>
>>
>> the mod_python mailing list is pretty dead so I thought I'd try asking
>> my question here.
>
> It comes as no surprise to me that the mod_python mailing list is dead:
> nobody uses mod_python anymore. For all I know, it might be broken, and
> the API was (IIRC) never particularly nice.
>
> IMHO, you should use WSGI instead: it's an interface portable across web
> server boundaries, and, with mod_wsgi, it's just as high-performance on
> apache as was mod_python.
>
>>
>> I am using mod_python and am having trouble with my .py scripts that
>> output HTML. the HTML comes out alright but my style sheets are not
>> being rendered. I am sure that this has to do withe a mod handler
>> problem.
>
> What does "not being rendered" mean? Do you have an exception traceback?
> Can you maybe a full transcript of HTTP headers and output? (by
> telnet'ing to the web server perhaps)
>
>>
>> Here is what I have in httpd.conf:
>>
>> <Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents/css>
>>      AddHandler mod_python .css
>>      PythonHandler handler::handler_css
>>      PythonDebug On
>> </Directory>
>>
>>
>> Here is what handler.py looks like:
>>
>> from mod_python import apache
>>
>> def _dump(req, extension):
>>      req.content_type = 'text/plain'
>>      print>>  req, 'uri = %s' % req.uri
>>      print>>  req, 'filename = %s' % req.filename
>>      print>>  req, 'path_info = %s' % req.path_info
>>      print>>  req, 'extension = %s' % extension
>>      return apache.OK
>>
>> def handler(req):
>>      return _dump(req, '')
>>
>> def handler_css(req):
>>      return _dump(req, '.css')
>>
>>
>> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>>
>