PUBLIC MARKS with tags python & http

You need to understand HTTP caching. No, really, you do. I have mentioned repeatedly that you need to choose your HTTP methods carefully when building a web service, in part because you can get the performance benefits of caching with GET. Well, if you want to get the real advantages of GET then you need to understand caching and how you can use it effectively to improve the performance of your service.

PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl.

This recipe describes how to set up a simple HTTP server supporting SSL secure communications. It extends the SimpleHTTPServer standard module to support the SSL protocol. With this recipe, only the server is authenticated while the client remains unauthenticated (i.e. the server will not request a client certificate from the browser). So, the client (typically the browser) will be able to verify the server identity and secure its communications with the server.

A minimalist application server, handling both GET and POST requests, including multipart/form-data for file uploads, HTTP redirections, and with an in-memory session management.

Sweet.

This goes to my opendap client.

Beautiful.