README

   1 multitaskhttpd is a project to provide a single-process cooperative
   2 multitasking web server toolkit, using multitask.py.
   3
   4 So far, this includes a basic HTTP server based on SimpleHTTPServer:
   5     python httpd.py -d
   6
   7 and a JSONRPC test application:
   8     python jsonapp.py
   9
  10 The latter is where it gets interesting.  Session cookies are automatically
  11 used to create application instances which are persistent in memory
  12 (TODO: drop them after an application-specified timeout of course...)
  13
  14 As this is an entirely single-process application, it's perfectly possible
  15 to keep large complex data structures around that would otherwise be
  16 impossible to serialise (such as data structures from c-based python modules,
  17 or persistent database connection objects).
  18
  19 One of the reasons why this code has been put together is so that GNUmed
  20 can keep per-user persistent database connections open, where the user
  21 credentials are *different* on a per-user basis.  GNUmed uses postgresql
  22 "roles" for security purposes, and thus a "global database connection"
  23 which is the "norm" for most web-based database frameworks, is completely
  24 useless.
  25