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   1 So far, this includes a basic HTTP server based on SimpleHTTPServer:
   2     python httpd.py -d
   3
   4 and a JSONRPC test application:
   5     python jsonapp.py
   6
   7 The latter is where it gets interesting.  Session cookies are automatically
   8 used to create application instances which are persistent in memory
   9 (TODO: drop them after an application-specified timeout of course...)
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  11 As this is an entirely single-process application, it's perfectly possible
  12 to keep large complex data structures around that would otherwise be
  13 impossible to serialise (such as data structures from c-based python modules,
  14 or persistent database connection objects).
  15
  16 One of the reasons why this code has been put together is so that GNUmed
  17 can keep per-user persistent database connections open, where the user
  18 credentials are *different* on a per-user basis.  GNUmed uses postgresql
  19 "roles" for security purposes, and thus a "global database connection"
  20 which is the "norm" for most web-based database frameworks, is completely
  21 useless.
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