[Zope] newbie CGI question

[Tres Seaver]

Michel Pelletier wrote:
> 
> You know after reading this thread I was pretty surprised that we didn't
> have simply execcgi ability in Zope, considering how trivial it is.
> 
> I'll look into something like this possibly being a feature.
> 
> Thanks Tres!
> 
> -Michel

Note that the version I posted has several rough edges:

 * It doesn't propagate the CGI environment to the child process.  We
   could fix this on Unixen by doing a fork() and some execve() magic,
   but then we lose the convenience of popen();  CreateProces() on Win32
   requires special handling, too.

 * It doesn't propagate the input stream some CGI's may expect to find.
   "Temp files and fork() and dup(), oh my!"

 * Win32 versions to use the win32.popen(), instead of os.popen().

 * The error handling is ugly.

 * It double-buffers results (which could get ugly if the CGI does
   weird stuff, or returns a really huge result).

In short, its a pretty ugly bandaid, recommended only for easing the CGI
withdrawal jitters. :)  Doing the Right Thing (TM) involves reimplementing a big
chunk of a web server, which is probably why Zope Didn't Go There already. 
mod_rewrite looks pretty sane by comparison.

Tres.
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