Hi everyone. With the availability of Zope2 alpha I'd like to take an opportunity to dust off a version of pcgi_publisher I worked on last December. I withdrew it after the initial Zope release because too many things were changing too quickly. Since then, Digital Creations has released PCGIServer, which works between pcgi-wrapper and Medusa. This is especially handy for connecting to Zope through your web server. However, I have other reasons for wanting to maintain (and even extend) pcgi_publisher. The reasons are related to legacy projects and other projects in which I prefer to allocate one long running process (LRP) per session. After reviewing my earlier notes, here is list of proposed enhancements: 1. Added support for concurrency (PCGI_THREAD_POOL directive) by using standard Python module SocketServer. Guido accepted a slight patch to the SocketServer module that I submitted prior to the Python 1.5.2 final. 2. Added ability to launch processes manually by passing it the pathname of the pcgi info file. 3. Applied fixes suggested by Digital Creations. 4. Inactivity timer: shuts down the process after a designated value is exceeded. Item 2 becomes less important as we move process launch control outside of PCGI, but it's still useful for testing, perhaps. Item 4 is handy for some of my projects, where I might allocate one process per session. Other Zopists may find it useful. If there are no objections, I'll try to have a new version ready soon. It could possibly be added to the Zope contribution area or bundled with the next alpha/beta release. Everything should be backwards compatible with prior versions of pcgi_publisher, with the possible/conditional exception of items discussed below: 1. Starting around line 164 we have a try/except block to catch import errors: try: from ZPublisher import publish_module except ImportError: try: from cgi_module_publisher import publish_module except ImportError: return self.fatalError( "unable to import publish_module from ZPublisher") Is there any reason to continue to check for cgi_module_publisher? 2. initPrincipia() -- is this still used by anyone? 3. PCGI_WORKING_DIR has been deprecated for over a year now. Is anyone using it? Finally, I'm aware there are other features/fixes/requests that ought to be addressed with pcgi: - out-of-band communications - process launch - data streaming - mod_pcgi The enchanced pcgi_publisher will do nothing to address these issues <0.7 wink> but they haven't been forgotten. Best regards, Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc.