The most common use of Spyce is to serve dynamic HTML content, but it should
be noted that Spyce can be used as a general purpose text engine. It can be
used to generate XML, text and other output, as easily as HTML. In fact, the
engine can also be used to generate dynamic binary data, such as images, PDF
files, etc., if needed.
The Spyce engine can be installed in a
number of different configurations that can produce dynamic output, including:
mod_python: Apache module that runs a Python interpreter
in-process
FCGI: A CGI-like method that does not incur the large process
startup overhead on each request
webserver: The engine can operate as a proxy webserver, serving
requests redirected to it by a primary server. It can also operate as a
primary server, although this webserver is extremely feature poor.
CGI: Spyce can interoperate with any webserver that supports CGI