multitaskhttpd is a project to provide a single-process cooperative
multitasking web server toolkit, using multitask.py.

So far, this includes a basic HTTP server based on SimpleHTTPServer:
    python httpd.py -d

and a JSONRPC test application:
    python jsonapp.py

then run the jsonrpclib test:
    python testjsonrpc.py

The jsonapp.py is where it gets interesting.  Session cookies are automatically
used to create application instances which are persistent in memory
(TODO: drop them after an application-specified timeout of course...)

As this is an entirely single-process application, it's perfectly possible
to keep large complex data structures around that would otherwise be
impossible to serialise (such as data structures from c-based python modules,
or persistent database connection objects).

One of the reasons why this code has been put together is so that GNUmed
can keep per-user persistent database connections open, where the user
credentials are *different* on a per-user basis.  GNUmed uses postgresql
"roles" for security purposes, and thus a "global database connection"
which is the "norm" for most web-based database frameworks, is completely
useless.