Contents

• Front Matter
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Performance
  • 1.2 Flexibility
  • 1.3 History
• 2. Installation
  • 2.1 Prerequisites
  • 2.2 Compiling
    • 2.2.1 Running ./configure
    • 2.2.2 Running make
  • 2.3 Installing
    • 2.3.1 Running make install
    • 2.3.2 Configuring Apache
  • 2.4 Testing
  • 2.5 Troubleshooting
• 3. Tutorial
  • 3.1 Quick Overview of how Apache Handles Requests
  • 3.2 So what Exactly does Mod-python do?
  • 3.3 Now something More Complicated - Authentication
  • 3.4 Publisher Handler Makes it Easy
• 4. Python API
  • 4.1 Multiple Interpreters
  • 4.2 Overview of a Handler
  • 4.3 apache - Access to Apache Internals.
    • 4.3.1 Table Object (mp_table) 
    • 4.3.2 Request Object 
    • 4.3.3 Connection Object (mp_conn) 
    • 4.3.4 Server Object (mp_server) 
    • 4.3.5 Debugging
    • 4.3.6 Internal Callback Object 
  • 4.4 util - Miscellaneous Utilities
    • 4.4.1 FieldStorage class
    • 4.4.2 Other functions
• 5. Apache Configuration Directives
  • 5.1 Handlers
    • 5.1.1 Python*Handler Directive Syntax
    • 5.1.2 PythonPostReadRequestHandler
    • 5.1.3 PythonTransHandler
    • 5.1.4 PythonHeaderParserHandler
    • 5.1.5 PythonAccessHandler
    • 5.1.6 PythonAuthenHandler
    • 5.1.7 PythonTypeHandler
    • 5.1.8 PythonFixupHandler
    • 5.1.9 PythonHandler
    • 5.1.10 PythonInitHandler
    • 5.1.11 PythonLogHandler
    • 5.1.12 PythonCleanupHandler
  • 5.2 Other Directives
    • 5.2.1 PythonEnablePdb
    • 5.2.2 PythonDebug
    • 5.2.3 PythonImport
    • 5.2.4 PythonInterpPerDirectory
    • 5.2.5 PythonInterpPerDirective
    • 5.2.6 PythonInterpreter
    • 5.2.7 PythonHandlerModule
    • 5.2.8 PythonAutoReload
    • 5.2.9 PythonOptimize
    • 5.2.10 PythonOption
    • 5.2.11 PythonPath
• 6. Standard Handlers
  • 6.1 Publisher Handler
    • 6.1.1 Introduction
    • 6.1.2 The Publishing Algorithm
    • 6.1.3 Form Data
  • 6.2 CGI Handler
  • 6.3 Httpdapy handler
  • 6.4 ZHandler
• A. Windows Installation
• B. VMS installation
• Index
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