Contents

• 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 A Quick Start with the Publisher Handler
  • 3.2 Quick Overview of how Apache Handles Requests
  • 3.3 So what Exactly does Mod-python do?
  • 3.4 Now something More Complicated - Authentication
• 4. Python API
  • 4.1 Multiple Interpreters
  • 4.2 Overview of a Request Handler
  • 4.3 Overview of a Filter Handler
  • 4.4 Overview of a Connection Handler
  • 4.5 apache - Access to Apache Internals.
    • 4.5.1 Functions
    • 4.5.2 Table Object (mp_table) 
    • 4.5.3 Request Object 
    • 4.5.4 Connection Object (mp_conn) 
    • 4.5.5 Filter Object (mp_filter) 
    • 4.5.6 Server Object (mp_server) 
  • 4.6 util - Miscellaneous Utilities
    • 4.6.1 FieldStorage class
    • 4.6.2 Field class
    • 4.6.3 Other functions
  • 4.7 Cookie - HTTP State Management
    • 4.7.1 Classes
    • 4.7.2 Functions
    • 4.7.3 Examples
  • 4.8 Session - Session Management
    • 4.8.1 Classes
  • 4.9 psp - Python Server Pages
• 5. Apache Configuration Directives
  • 5.1 Request Handlers
    • 5.1.1 Python*Handler Directive Syntax
    • 5.1.2 PythonPostReadRequestHandler
    • 5.1.3 PythonTransHandler
    • 5.1.4 PythonHeaderParserHandler
    • 5.1.5 PythonInitHandler
    • 5.1.6 PythonAccessHandler
    • 5.1.7 PythonAuthenHandler
    • 5.1.8 PythonAuthzHandler
    • 5.1.9 PythonTypeHandler
    • 5.1.10 PythonFixupHandler
    • 5.1.11 PythonHandler
    • 5.1.12 PythonLogHandler
    • 5.1.13 PythonCleanupHandler
  • 5.2 Filters
    • 5.2.1 PythonInputFilter
    • 5.2.2 PythonOutputFilter
  • 5.3 Connection Handler
    • 5.3.1 PythonConnectionHandler
  • 5.4 Other Directives
    • 5.4.1 PythonEnablePdb
    • 5.4.2 PythonDebug
    • 5.4.3 PythonImport
    • 5.4.4 PythonInterpPerDirectory
    • 5.4.5 PythonInterpPerDirective
    • 5.4.6 PythonInterpreter
    • 5.4.7 PythonHandlerModule
    • 5.4.8 PythonAutoReload
    • 5.4.9 PythonOptimize
    • 5.4.10 PythonOption
    • 5.4.11 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 PSP Handler
  • 6.3 CGI Handler
• A. Changes from Previous Major Version (2.x)
• Index