[albatross-users] New version of the standalone http server

[Dave Cole]

> Attached is an updated version of the standalone server with the
> following changes:
> 
>       * Fixed to support forms containing input fields with a "list"
>         attribute. It only ever returned the first value in the get or
>         post data before.
>       * Added the current working directory to the path so that the
>         httpd.py script can live anywhere.
>       * changed the filename to al-httpd. An even better name might be
>         al-simple-server.

It works beautifully.  I would love to add this to Albatross to sit
next to your FastCGI code.

I made one small change to your code to make it a bit more flexible (I
hope).  I let the application mainline construct the application
object.

--- al-httpd-orig	2003-07-03 23:09:30.000000000 +1000
+++ al-httpd	2003-07-03 23:07:18.000000000 +1000
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 
     # Load the application's module and create an application instance
     module = __import__(appClass[:appClass.rindex('.')])
-    app = getattr(module,appClass[appClass.rindex('.')+1:])()
+    app = getattr(module,appClass[appClass.rindex('.')+1:])
 
     # Create the HTTP server
     httpd = HTTPServer(app, port)

Now with the most trivial change to the form4 Albatross sample it
works fantastically.

--- samples/form4/form.py	2002-08-17 23:14:36.000000000 +1000
+++ form.py	2003-07-03 23:13:40.000000000 +1000
@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@
                 secret = '-=-secret-=-')
 app.register_page('form', Form())
 
-app.run(Request())
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    app.run(Request())

Now due to you code I can do this:

$ al-httpd form.app 8080

That is cool!

- Dave

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