[mod_python] Singleton Object

On 14/12/2007, Tom Wells <drshade at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2007 4:17 AM, Graham Dumpleton <graham.dumpleton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > For WSGI on IIS see:
> >
> >  http://code.google.com/p/isapi-wsgi/
> >
> > That way you should be able to use the sam code base.
> >
>
>  A huge piece of my module needs to be purely an authentication piece,
> protecting either a set of jsp/servlet pages on apache, or aspx on IIS, thus
> I only actually hook into AuthenHandler and/or AuthzHandler - I have no
> requirement to actually handle dynamically creating pages etc (which I
> assume is the typical WSGI usage scenario). On the IIS side I was planning
> to look at pywin32 and build the same sort of functionality using the ISAPI
> basic interface (HttpFilterProc and HttpExtensionProc hooks). The IIS
> interfaces are far weaker than the apache side (especially when trying to
> introduce a new Authentication Type) - but fortunately my requirements for
> IIS support are simpler, and I plan to merely hijack the "Basic
> Authentication" tick-box ;)
>
> I do like the idea of WSGI, I just feel it's going to be more pain than what
> it's worth for my particular scenario - plus I like the fact that mod_python
> comes out the box with my target platforms (ubuntu & suse) and so far seems
> really simple once you understand the apache behemoth.
>
> One quick question - AuthenHandler vs. AuthzHandler? Docs are very light,
> and seem to say they do a similar job - please could you elaborate?

Sorry, no time to explain, so better you have a good read of:

  http://www.fmc-modeling.org/category/projects/apache/amp/Apache_Modeling_Project.html

 http://www.fmc-modeling.org/category/projects/apache/amp/4_4Request_Response_Loop.html

  http://www.fmc-modeling.org/category/projects/apache/amp/3_3Extending_Apache.html

Graham