ANN Httpdapy 1.6b

[Gregory Trubetskoy]

The latest version of Httpdapy fixes some significant bugs and provides better
documentation.

Please get the latest version from http://www.ispol.com/home/grisha/httpdapy/

1. A bug related to the way multiple intrpreters were implemented that would
occasionally use objects created in one interpreter in another. The bug would manifest
itself by Python complaining that __dict__ is not available in restricted mode.

2. A bug related to Python authentication. Apache may sometimes call the authentication
handler recursively and Httpdapy wasn't releasing the thread lock in anticipation of
this. As a result, the server would appear hung.

3. The ZPublisher support module would return the wrong content size at times. This
confused some browsers and especially firewalls.

4. The ZPublisher RESPONSE.write() now works correctly allowing proper unbuffered
output.

5. There is an incompatibility between pthreads and Apache on Linux kernels prior to
2.1. There is no fix for this problem other than to use the latest Linux kernels or not
to use threads in your programs.

6. New functions stdout_hook() and stdout_unhook() for easier migration for CGI scripts
which have lots of prints to stdout to write their output.

7. Other mostly cosmetic improvements.

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Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
gri...@ispol.com