Hi Intrigued by the revelation that lighttpd (www.lighttpd.net) does scgi out of the box and would also do file based socket connections (AF_UNIX). I quickly produced modified scgi_server.py and quixote_handler.py scripts which allow a unix socket to be used instead. These are mods on top of scgi-1.4. I attach those below; they are not perfect, but currently it works for me. I think it could be made a bit cleaner.... The quixote handler script takes an extra argument -s to specify the socket file. The scgi_server script (when run standalone) assumes that if the 2nd arg is an int then it's to run on a tcp port; if it is a string it assumes it's a file name. comments welcome Jon