In this article I would like to inform you about my newest pet-project: pyttpd.

pyttpd is my effort of implementing a webserver in Python, with a focus on security (through privilege separation), extensibility and scalability.

I started this project because I was not entirely happy with the lack of flexibility and support for privilege separation by popular webservers. Whilst both lighttpd and Apache httpd provide means of running processes under different users these usually require hacks like suexec. Additionally I am somehow curious about how a fully-fledged webserver implemented in Python would perform compared to the mentioned daemons.

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