[Web-SIG] ANN: CherryPy-2.1.0-final released

2005-10-23 Thread Remi Delon
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the release of CherryPy-2.1.0 It is the result of 6 months of intense development since the last stable release and the work of a growing number of contributors. CherryPy has become increasingly popular these past few months (the mailing lists now have more

Re: [Web-SIG] A query for hosting providers

2005-04-03 Thread Remi Delon
On our own servers we've been using CGI connectors (wkcgi, Zope.cgi), which seem fast enough, and of course won't be crashing Apache. Yeah, but we wanted a somewhat "standard" way of talking to Apache and most frameworks do come with a small HTTP server, so that works fine for us and it also compl

Re: [Web-SIG] A query for hosting providers

2005-04-03 Thread Remi Delon
The CP-Location trick is not needed (I should remove it from this page as it confuses people). Hmm, I wrote that part of the page. My specific reason for using a custom header is that it's the only way I can see to locate a CherryPy application *not* at the root of a virtual host. Maybe we should c

Re: [Web-SIG] A query for hosting providers

2005-03-31 Thread Remi Delon
Ian Bicking wrote: Remi Delon wrote: I'm wondering -- and this is mostly directed to the hosting providers (Remi, Sean...) -- what are the problems with providing commodity-level hosting for Python programs? I can think of some, but I'm curious what you've encountered and if

Re: [Web-SIG] A query for hosting providers

2005-03-29 Thread Remi Delon
This allows us to use the trick described on this page: http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/BehindApache (look for "autostart.cgi") to have Apache restart the server automatically if it ever goes down. A main disadvantage of using apache to start the HTTP server is process UID. The HTTP server will be s

Re: [Web-SIG] A query for hosting providers

2005-03-29 Thread Remi Delon
I'm wondering -- and this is mostly directed to the hosting providers (Remi, Sean...) -- what are the problems with providing commodity-level hosting for Python programs? I can think of some, but I'm curious what you've encountered and if you have ideas about how to improve things. Some things

Re: [Web-SIG] Ann: CherryPy-2.0-beta released

2005-01-03 Thread Remi Delon
Ian, Here is a non-exhaustive list of CherryPy-2 features: multi-threaded HTTP server, XML-RPC server, sessions, form handling, authentication, unicode support, gzip-compression, virtual hosting, WSGI adapter (experimental) I'm curious, what does the WSGI invocation look like? Or, what would you

[Web-SIG] Ann: CherryPy-2.0-beta released

2005-01-03 Thread Remi Delon
Hello everyone, I am happy to announce the release of CherryPy-2.0-beta. CherryPy-2 is a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework. CherryPy-2 is a redesign of CherryPy-1 (the unpythonic features have been removed): no more compilation step, pure python source code (no more "CherryClass")