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2007-11-12 paulb [project @ 2007-11-12 00:51:34 by paulb] Added a StringResource class for simple static resources. Introduced base classes for common authentication activities. Merged "app", "path" and "qs" fields into a single "app" field for login and redirection. Added support for OpenID authentication.
     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>Path Info Support in Server Environments</title>     6   <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /></head>     7 <body>     8 <h1>Path Info Support in Server Environments</h1>     9 <p>The following table summarises the support for "path info" within    10 applications    11 amongst the supported server environments or frameworks within WebStack:</p>    12 <table align="center" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="80%">    13   <tbody>    14     <tr>    15       <th>Framework</th>    16       <th>Behaviour (Level of Support)</th>    17     </tr>    18     <tr>    19       <td>BaseHTTPRequestHandler</td>    20       <td>Same as path (correct)</td>    21     </tr>    22     <tr>    23       <td>CGI</td>    24       <td>Path beyond resource (correct)</td>    25     </tr>    26     <tr><td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Django</td><td align="undefined" valign="undefined">Path beyond context (correct)</td></tr><tr>    27       <td>Java Servlet API</td>    28       <td>Path beyond context (correct)</td>    29     </tr>    30     <tr>    31       <td>mod_python</td>    32       <td>Path beyond resource (correct)</td>    33     </tr>    34     <tr>    35       <td>Twisted</td>    36       <td>Same as path (correct)</td>    37     </tr>    38     <tr>    39       <td>Webware</td>    40       <td>&lt;= 0.8.1: Not supported (needs <code>ExtraPathInfo</code>    41 support)<br />    42 &gt; 0.8.1: Path beyond context (correct)</td>    43     </tr>    44     <tr>    45       <td>WSGI</td>    46       <td>Path beyond resource (correct)</td>    47     </tr>    48     <tr>    49       <td>Zope</td>    50       <td>Path beyond resource (correct)</td>    51     </tr>    52   </tbody>    53 </table>    54 </body></html>