> I'm looking for a small, simple, fast, Python based web server > for a simple, client side application we're building. We don't > want to distrubute and support a "real" web server like Apache or > Tomcat or depend on the presence of local web server such as IIS. > The application in question will service AJAX requests from a > browser. > > We're not looking for a web framework like Django, Plone, etc. > > 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? > > Here are the other Python based web server implementations I'm > aware of: > - cherrypy > - web.py > - twisted > > Any recommendations appreciated (Python 2.6 preferred but open to > Python 3.1 options).
I'm using cherrypy for this purpose, actually together with turbogears 1. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
