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Starting out with my own Quixote test apps
2004-08-09
2004-08-10
Starting out with my own Quixote test apps
Tobiah
2004-08-09
Hello,

I'm just done checking out the demo, and starting
plugging together a small test app.  The whole
idea of Quixote is quite new to me, and so I am a bit
confused.

The answer to this question may help a little bit.

Is PTL only available in files that get called as
an after component to the base cgi file?  For instance,
if 'foo.cgi' gets called with '/foo.cgi/component',
is the magic bit that probes the python namespace for
that item the thing that parses the PTL and changes
it into python?

Let me take a stab at describing what I see so far,
so that I might be corrected.

I'm guessing that when Apache parses a URL, and finds
an executable in the middle, where a directory should
be, it just passes the remainder of the URL in the
environment, or as an argument.  So, really, I'm
just running the same cgi script every time.  It must
be the Publisher object that imports the proper callable
in response to the argument, preprocessing any PTL that
it finds into maybe a temp file before it gets run.

Am I close?

Thanks,

Tobiah

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