[MODPYTHON-104] Allow Python code callouts with mod_include (SSI).

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.1
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Graham Phillip Dumpleton
• Reporter: Graham Phillip Dumpleton
• Created: 23/Dec/05 09:23
• Updated: 05/Apr/07 11:11
• Resolved: 27/Oct/06 08:29

Description

The mod_include module supporting server side includes (SSI), provides a means of registering new element tags which trigger callouts to other code in separate Apache modules. This is used for example in mod_perl to allow Perl language code to be used with server side includes:

<!--#perl sub="MySSI::remote_host" -->

<!--#perl arg="Hello" arg="SSI" arg="World"
sub="sub

{ my($r, @args) = @_; print qq(@args); }

"
-->

An equivalent feature for Python was previously asked about on the mailing list back in 2004:

http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2004-January/014832.html

Since it seems entirely reasonable that such integration of mod_python and mod_include would be possible, thought it would be good to log it as a possible new feature.

Because of SSI's support for basic conditionals, includes and other callout mechanisms, would be a good quick and dirty way of doing templating without having to resort to PSP, or other high level templating systems.