Venkat B wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm looking build a CGI-capable SSL-enabled web-server around Python 2.4 on Linux. It is to handle ~25 hits possibly arriving "at once". Content is non-static and built by the execution of py cgi-scripts talking to a few backend processes.
1) I was wondering if anyone has opinions on the ability of CGIHTTPServer (a forking variant) to be able to handle this.
I wouldn't even consider it. The *HTTPServer modules aren't really intended to be much beyond a proof-of-concept, IMHO. Certainly you'd be likely to stress the system having 25 requests arrive in a bunch, though a modern computer would probably handle it.
There is a *lot* to do to SSL-enable a server. Since you advertise yourself as a newbie, I'd suggest there were better places to focus your efforts.2) If so, would something like pyOpenSSL be useful to make such a webserver SSL-enabled.
I believe the Twisted package may be your best alternative, though this is at best hearsay since I am not (yet) an active user.I checked out John Goerzen's book: Foundations of Python Network Programming (ISBN 1590593715) and searched around. While I found how one can write py scripts that could communicate with SSL-enabled webservers, tips on building SSL-enabled webservers isn't obvious.
I was hoping to build a cleaner solution around the CGIHTTPServer variant instead of say something like mini-httpd/OpenSSL/Python. I'd appreciate any pointers.
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