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4.4 Overview of a Connection Handler
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A <i class="dfn">connection handler</i> handles the connection, starting almost
immediately from the point the TCP connection to the server was
made.
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Unlike HTTP handlers, connection handlers receive a <i>connection</i>
object as an argument.
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Connection handlers can be used to implement protocols. Here is an
example of a simple echo server:
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Apache configuration:
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PythonConnectionHandler echo
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Contents of <span class="file">echo.py</span> file:
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from mod_python import apache
def connectionhandler(conn):
while 1:
conn.write(conn.readline())
return apache.OK
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