pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
I'm looking for a small, simple, fast, Python based web server
for a simple, client side application we're building.
I've used WebStack[1] for this in the past. It allows for
stand-alone serving as well as plugging nicely into various
"real" servers (apache+mod_python, etc) with a small tweak in how
it's configured.
I've looked at the web servers that come bundled with the Python
standard library[1] and they are too slow. I suspect this is
because they don't maintain a session between the client and
server, thus every GET/POST request repeats the session setup and
break down process. Or they might be based on a polling model?
I'm not sure what caused the slowness you've experienced -- using
Python in a CGI environment requires starting the Python
interpreter each time. However if the interpreter starts just
once, I've not had notable performance issues for low-volume
sites (using the BaseHTTP builtin). For higher-volume sites, you
might reach for Twisted which WebStack supports as well. I
believe both WebStack and Twisted are redistribtable as needed.
-tkc
[1] http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/WebStack.html
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