Hi, I haven't quite given up. It just has to be possible, PCGI and fastcgi can do it, so why not I? I've rechecked the protocol and am quit sure that I've gotting it right. While checking, I noticed that PCGI (the wrapper, actually) will start a python process called pcgi_publisher.py. Is this necessary? As I understood the documentation, when using the ZServer for listening on a (TCP) port, this is all it needs. Does ZServer on unix work with TCP sockets or only with domain sockets? If I start Zope with' python z2.py -X -F 1234 -D', then it will listen on the port 1234, but it will never spew anything out ... Does anyone have a clue as to what happens (which processes are started and how they interact) if you use PCGI? I just find it hard to believe that there is no documentaion on this subject ... Robert ------------------------------------- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 267 14 66 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 267 14 61 Robert Frank Klingelbergstrasse 50 Robert.Frank@unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel (remove any no_spam_ from my return address) Switzerland http://www.ifi.unibas.ch/~frank