beta testing for mod_wsgi

[Manlio Perillo]

Adrian Perez ha scritto:
> El Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:47:29 +0100
> Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> escribió:
> 
>> Adrian Perez ha scritto:
>>> El Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:34:44 +0100
>>> Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> escribió:
>>>
>>> [...] 
>>>
>>> You may see this behaviour at
>>> http://foobar.homeunix.org/trac/overlay (try to login as guest).
>>>
>> What is the password?
>> I'm unable to login.
> 
> Username: guest
> Password: nospamatall
> 
> (They are written in the green box of the main page of the wiki, maybe
> I should make the note stand out a little more :-P)
> 

No, I simply have not read the rest of the page :).

>> The module name is built from the name of the location used,
>> replacing '/' with '_'.
>>
>> [...] 
>>
>> I have to admit that I have never thought about this possibility ;-).
> 
> I see. Only if "auth_basic" and "auth_basic_user_file" could be used
> inside an "if" context, we could workaround this... I think WSGI
> authentication middleware could be used as well, as long as the
> middleware allows to only limit some URLs ;-)
>  

You can set the middleware stack inside a specific location.

>> It seems that I have to change the algorithm used for built the
>> module name.
>>
>> Maybe I should add the possibility to specify the module name in the 
>> wsgi_pass directive, or I should use an hash of the module name.
> 
> I don't know whether this will be a widely-used feature, I have tested
> hgweb, bazaar's smartserver and Trac so far. Only Trac needed this. If
> there isn't a huge need for this, the manual-configuration method will
> suffice.
> 
> Those were my 2 cents ;-)
> 


Thanks.

The WSGI implementation for Apache computes the md5 hash of the script 
full path name, but maybe I can just use the path name, replacing '/' 
with '_'.

I have to think (unfortunately lately I have very little free time to 
dedicate to the development of mod_wsgi).




Manlio Perillo