1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 2 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 3 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head> 4 <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /> 5 <title>Support for WebStack Features in Server Environments</title> 6 <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head> 7 <body> 8 <h1>Support for WebStack Features in Server Environments</h1> 9 <p>Some basic features of Web applications are not supported by all 10 server environments or frameworks. The table below summarises the 11 implementation details of such features when applications are deployed 12 in each server environment.</p> 13 <table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="80%"> 14 <tbody> 15 <tr> 16 <td></td> 17 <th>BaseHTTPRequestHandler</th> 18 <th>CGI</th> 19 <th>Django</th><th>mod_python</th> 20 <th>Java Servlet API</th> 21 <th>Twisted</th> 22 <th>Webware</th> 23 <th>WSGI</th> 24 <th>Zope 2</th> 25 </tr> 26 <tr> 27 <th>Unicode response writing</th> 28 <td>WebStack</td> 29 <td>WebStack</td> 30 <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">WebStack</td><td>WebStack</td> 31 <td>Framework</td> 32 <td>WebStack</td> 33 <td>WebStack</td> 34 <td>WebStack</td> 35 <td>WebStack</td> 36 </tr> 37 <tr> 38 <th>Cookies</th> 39 <td>WebStack [1]</td> 40 <td>WebStack [1]</td> 41 <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Framework [3]</td><td>Framework [2]</td> 42 <td>Framework [3]</td> 43 <td>Framework [3]</td> 44 <td>Framework [3]</td> 45 <td>WebStack [1]</td> 46 <td>Framework [3]</td> 47 </tr> 48 <tr> 49 <th>Sessions</th> 50 <td>WebStack</td> 51 <td>WebStack</td> 52 <td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Framework</td><td>Framework [4]</td> 53 <td>Framework</td> 54 <td>WebStack</td> 55 <td>Framework</td> 56 <td>WebStack</td> 57 <td>Framework</td> 58 </tr> 59 </tbody> 60 </table> 61 <h3>Notes</h3> 62 <ol> 63 <li>WebStack cookie support is provided using the standard library <code>Cookie</code> 64 module.</li> 65 <li>Some mod_python releases do not provide cookie support directly.</li> 66 <li>An additional class is employed to provide a uniform cookie API 67 on certain frameworks.</li> 68 <li>Some mod_python releases do not provide session support directly.</li> 69 </ol> 70 </body></html>