Question about long-running web scripts

[Gilles]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:00:17 +0100, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk>
wrote:
>Certainly there are Python equivalents (mod_python, mod_wsgi, etc.)
>which can run in effectively the same way as mod_php, and they could be
>configured to run an fcgi frontend script, I presume. There's always a
>certain confusion here because you can often one mechanisms (say,
>mod_wsgi) to act as another (say legacy one-shot CGI) and because some
>things are both mechanism and protocol and it's not always easy to tease
>the two apart.

Thanks again.