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returns an instance of 'AppClass', which is then the iterable
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return value of the "application callable" as required by
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the spec.
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If we wanted to use *instances* of 'AppClass' as application
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objects instead, we would have to implement a '__call__'
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method, which would be invoked to execute the application,
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The server or gateway invokes the application callable once for each
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request it receives from an HTTP client, that is directed at the
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application. To illustrate, here is a simple CGI gateway, implemented
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as a function taking an application object. Note that this simple
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example has limited error handling, because by default an uncaught
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exception will be dumped to ``sys.stderr`` and logged by the web
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as a function taking an application object. Note that this simple
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example has limited error handling, because by default an uncaught
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exception will be dumped to ``sys.stderr`` and logged by the web
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server.
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::
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exc_info = None # avoid dangling circular ref
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elif headers_set:
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raise AssertionError("Headers already set!")
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headers_set[:] = [status,response_headers]
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return write
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The presence of middleware in general is transparent to both the
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"server/gateway" and the "application/framework" sides of the
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interface, and should require no special support. A user who
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desires to incorporate middleware into an application simply
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provides the middleware component to the server, as if it were
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desires to incorporate middleware into an application simply
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provides the middleware component to the server, as if it were
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an application, and configures the middleware component to
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invoke the application, as if the middleware component were a
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server. Of course, the "application" that the middleware wraps
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may in fact be another middleware component wrapping another
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application, and so on, creating what is referred to as a
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application, and so on, creating what is referred to as a
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"middleware stack".
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For the most part, middleware must conform to the restrictions
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Here is a (tongue-in-cheek) example of a middleware component that
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converts ``text/plain`` responses to pig latin, using Joe Strout's
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``piglatin.py``. (Note: a "real" middleware component would
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``piglatin.py``. (Note: a "real" middleware component would
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probably use a more robust way of checking the content type, and
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should also check for a content encoding. Also, this simple
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example ignores the possibility that a word might be split across
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::
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from piglatin import piglatin
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class LatinIter:
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"""Transform iterated output to piglatin, if it's okay to do so
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Note that the "okayness" can change until the application yields
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its first non-empty string, so 'transform_ok' has to be a mutable
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truth value."""
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class Latinator:
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# by default, don't transform output
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transform = False
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transform = False
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def __init__(self, application):
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self.application = application
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def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
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transform_ok = []
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def start_latin(status,response_headers,exc_info=None):
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# Reset ok flag, in case this is a repeat call
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transform_ok[:]=[]
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transform_ok[:]=[]
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for name,value in response_headers:
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if name.lower()=='content-type' and value=='text/plain':
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transform_ok.append(True)
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# Strip content-length if present, else it'll be wrong
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response_headers = [(name,value)
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for name,value in response_headers
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response_headers = [(name,value)
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for name,value in response_headers
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if name.lower()<>'content-length'
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]
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break
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write = start_response(status,response_headers,exc_info)
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if transform_ok:
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``start_response(status,response_headers)``).
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The ``status`` parameter is a status string of the form
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``"999 Message here"``, and ``response_headers`` is a list of
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``"999 Message here"``, and ``response_headers`` is a list of
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``(header_name,header_value)`` tuples describing the HTTP response
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header. The optional ``exc_info`` parameter is described below in the
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sections on `The start_response() Callable`_ and `Error Handling`_.
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attempting to display an error message to the browser.
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The ``start_response`` callable must return a ``write(body_data)``
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callable that takes one positional parameter: a string to be written
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callable that takes one positional parameter: a string to be written
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as part of the HTTP response body. (Note: the ``write()`` callable is
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provided only to support certain existing frameworks' imperative output
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APIs; it should not be used by new applications or frameworks if it
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can be avoided. See the `Buffering and Streaming`_ section for more
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details.)
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When called by the server, the application object must return an
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When called by the server, the application object must return an
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iterable yielding zero or more strings. This can be accomplished in a
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variety of ways, such as by returning a list of strings, or by the
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application being a generator function that yields strings, or
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Regardless of how it is accomplished, the application object must
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always return an iterable yielding zero or more strings.
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The server or gateway must transmit the yielded strings to the client
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in an unbuffered fashion, completing the transmission of each string
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The server or gateway must transmit the yielded strings to the client
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in an unbuffered fashion, completing the transmission of each string
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before requesting another one. (In other words, applications
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**should** perform their own buffering. See the `Buffering and
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**should** perform their own buffering. See the `Buffering and
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Streaming`_ section below for more on how application output must be
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handled.)
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such as byte-range transmission. See `Other HTTP Features`_, below,
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for more details.)
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If a call to ``len(iterable)`` succeeds, the server must be able
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to rely on the result being accurate. That is, if the iterable
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returned by the application provides a working ``__len__()``
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If a call to ``len(iterable)`` succeeds, the server must be able
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to rely on the result being accurate. That is, if the iterable
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returned by the application provides a working ``__len__()``
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method, it **must** return an accurate result. (See
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the `Handling the Content-Length Header`_ section for information
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on how this would normally be used.)
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If the iterable returned by the application has a ``close()`` method,
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the server or gateway **must** call that method upon completion of the
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current request, whether the request was completed normally, or
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current request, whether the request was completed normally, or
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terminated early due to an error. (This is to support resource release
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by the application. This protocol is intended to complement PEP 325's
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generator support, and other common iterables with ``close()`` methods.
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(Note: the application **must** invoke the ``start_response()``
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(Note: the application **must** invoke the ``start_response()``
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callable before the iterable yields its first body string, so that the
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server can send the headers before any body content. However, this
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invocation **may** be performed by the iterable's first iteration, so
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Finally, servers and gateways **must not** directly use any other
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attributes of the iterable returned by the application, unless it is an
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instance of a type specific to that server or gateway, such as a "file
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wrapper" returned by ``wsgi.file_wrapper`` (see `Optional
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Platform-Specific File Handling`_). In the general case, only
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wrapper" returned by ``wsgi.file_wrapper`` (see `Optional
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Platform-Specific File Handling`_). In the general case, only
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attributes specified here, or accessed via e.g. the PEP 234 iteration
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APIs are acceptable.
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**may** be omitted, except as otherwise noted below.
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``REQUEST_METHOD``
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The HTTP request method, such as ``"GET"`` or ``"POST"``. This
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The HTTP request method, such as ``"GET"`` or ``"POST"``. This
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cannot ever be an empty string, and so is always required.
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``SCRIPT_NAME``
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``SCRIPT_NAME``
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The initial portion of the request URL's "path" that corresponds to
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the application object, so that the application knows its virtual
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the application object, so that the application knows its virtual
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"location". This **may** be an empty string, if the application
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corresponds to the "root" of the server.
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corresponds to the "root" of the server.
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``PATH_INFO``
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The remainder of the request URL's "path", designating the virtual
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The remainder of the request URL's "path", designating the virtual
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"location" of the request's target within the application. This
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**may** be an empty string, if the request URL targets the
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**may** be an empty string, if the request URL targets the
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application root and does not have a trailing slash.
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``QUERY_STRING``
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absence of these variables should correspond with the presence or
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absence of the appropriate HTTP header in the request.
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A server or gateway **should** attempt to provide as many other CGI
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A server or gateway **should** attempt to provide as many other CGI
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variables as are applicable. In addition, if SSL is in use, the server
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or gateway **should** also provide as many of the Apache SSL environment
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variables [5]_ as are applicable, such as ``HTTPS=on`` and
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A WSGI-compliant server or gateway **should** document what variables
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it provides, along with their definitions as appropriate. Applications
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**should** check for the presence of any variables they require, and
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**should** check for the presence of any variables they require, and
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have a fallback plan in the event such a variable is absent.
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Note: missing variables (such as ``REMOTE_USER`` when no
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version 1.0.
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``wsgi.url_scheme`` A string representing the "scheme" portion of
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the URL at which the application is being
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the URL at which the application is being
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invoked. Normally, this will have the value
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``"http"`` or ``"https"``, as appropriate.
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``wsgi.input`` An input stream (file-like object) from which
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the HTTP request body can be read. (The server
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or gateway may perform reads on-demand as
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or gateway may perform reads on-demand as
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requested by the application, or it may pre-
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read the client's request body and buffer it
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in-memory or on disk, or use any other
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technique for providing such an input stream,
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according to its preference.)
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``wsgi.errors`` An output stream (file-like object) to which
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``wsgi.errors`` An output stream (file-like object) to which
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error output can be written, for the purpose of
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recording program or other errors in a
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standardized and possibly centralized location.
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or gateway may supply different error streams
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to different applications, if this is desired.
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``wsgi.multithread`` This value should evaluate true if the
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``wsgi.multithread`` This value should evaluate true if the
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application object may be simultaneously
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invoked by another thread in the same process,
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and should evaluate false otherwise.
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``wsgi.multiprocess`` This value should evaluate true if an
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equivalent application object may be
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``wsgi.multiprocess`` This value should evaluate true if an
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equivalent application object may be
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simultaneously invoked by another process,
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and should evaluate false otherwise.
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(As with all WSGI callables, the arguments must be supplied
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positionally, not by keyword.) The ``start_response`` callable is
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used to begin the HTTP response, and it must return a
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``write(body_data)`` callable (see the `Buffering and Streaming`_
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``write(body_data)`` callable (see the `Buffering and Streaming`_
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section, below).
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The ``status`` argument is an HTTP "status" string like ``"200 OK"``
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or ``"404 Not Found"``. That is, it is a string consisting of a
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Status-Code and a Reason-Phrase, in that order and separated by a
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or ``"404 Not Found"``. That is, it is a string consisting of a
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Status-Code and a Reason-Phrase, in that order and separated by a
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single space, with no surrounding whitespace or other characters.
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(See RFC 2616, Section 6.1.1 for more information.) The string
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**must not** contain control characters, and must not be terminated
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Applications and middleware are forbidden from using HTTP/1.1
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"hop-by-hop" features or headers, any equivalent features in HTTP/1.0,
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or any headers that would affect the persistence of the client's
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or any headers that would affect the persistence of the client's
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connection to the web server. These features are the
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exclusive province of the actual web server, and a server or gateway
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**should** consider it a fatal error for an application to attempt
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sending them, and raise an error if they are supplied to
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sending them, and raise an error if they are supplied to
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``start_response()``. (For more specifics on "hop-by-hop" features and
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headers, please see the `Other HTTP Features`_ section below.)
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the application's first invocation of the ``write()`` callable. In
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other words, response headers must not be sent until there is actual
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body data available, or until the application's returned iterable is
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exhausted. (The only possible exception to this rule is if the
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exhausted. (The only possible exception to this rule is if the
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response headers explicitly include a ``Content-Length`` of zero.)
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This delaying of response header transmission is to ensure that buffered
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raise the ``exc_info`` tuple. That is::
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raise exc_info[0],exc_info[1],exc_info[2]
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This will re-raise the exception trapped by the application, and in
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principle should abort the application. (It is not safe for the
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principle should abort the application. (It is not safe for the
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application to attempt error output to the browser once the HTTP
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headers have already been sent.) The application **must not** trap
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any exceptions raised by ``start_response``, if it called
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any exceptions raised by ``start_response``, if it called
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``start_response`` with ``exc_info``. Instead, it should allow
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such exceptions to propagate back to the server or gateway. See
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`Error Handling`_ below, for more details.
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gateway above for an illustration of the correct logic.)
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Note: servers, gateways, or middleware implementing ``start_response``
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**should** ensure that no reference is held to the ``exc_info``
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**should** ensure that no reference is held to the ``exc_info``
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parameter beyond the duration of the function's execution, to avoid
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creating a circular reference through the traceback and frames
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involved. The simplest way to do this is something like::
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(Note: applications and middleware **must not** apply any kind of
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``Transfer-Encoding`` to their output, such as chunking or gzipping;
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as "hop-by-hop" operations, these encodings are the province of the
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as "hop-by-hop" operations, these encodings are the province of the
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actual web server/gateway. See `Other HTTP Features`_ below, for
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more details.)
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Generally speaking, applications will achieve the best throughput
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by buffering their (modestly-sized) output and sending it all at
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by buffering their (modestly-sized) output and sending it all at
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once. This is a common approach in existing frameworks such as
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Zope: the output is buffered in a StringIO or similar object, then
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transmitted all at once, along with the response headers.
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The corresponding approach in WSGI is for the application to simply
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return a single-element iterable (such as a list) containing the
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response body as a single string. This is the recommended approach
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for the vast majority of application functions, that render
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for the vast majority of application functions, that render
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HTML pages whose text easily fits in memory.
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For large files, however, or for specialized uses of HTTP streaming
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(such as multipart "server push"), an application may need to provide
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output in smaller blocks (e.g. to avoid loading a large file into
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output in smaller blocks (e.g. to avoid loading a large file into
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memory). It's also sometimes the case that part of a response may
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be time-consuming to produce, but it would be useful to send ahead the
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portion of the response that precedes it.
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In these cases, applications will usually return an iterator (often
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a generator-iterator) that produces the output in a block-by-block
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fashion. These blocks may be broken to coincide with mulitpart
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boundaries (for "server push"), or just before time-consuming
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fashion. These blocks may be broken to coincide with mulitpart
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boundaries (for "server push"), or just before time-consuming
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tasks (such as reading another block of an on-disk file).
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WSGI servers, gateways, and middleware **must not** delay the
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WSGI servers, gateways, and middleware **must not** delay the
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transmission of any block; they **must** either fully transmit
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the block to the client, or guarantee that they will continue
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transmission even while the application is producing its next block.
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A server/gateway or middleware may provide this guarantee in one of
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three ways:
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1. Send the entire block to the operating system (and request
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1. Send the entire block to the operating system (and request
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that any O/S buffers be flushed) before returning control
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to the application, OR
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2. Use a different thread to ensure that the block continues
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to be transmitted while the application produces the next
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block.
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3. (Middleware only) send the entire block to its parent
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gateway/server
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produce any output, it **must** yield an empty string.
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To put this requirement another way, a middleware component **must
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yield at least one value** each time its underlying application
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yield at least one value** each time its underlying application
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yields a value. If the middleware cannot yield any other value,
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it must yield an empty string.
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an iterable. It is also forbidden for middleware to use the
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``write()`` callable to transmit data that is yielded by an
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underlying application. Middleware may only use their parent
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server's ``write()`` callable to transmit data that the
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server's ``write()`` callable to transmit data that the
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underlying application sent using a middleware-provided ``write()``
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callable.
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@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Therefore, to allow these frameworks to continue using an
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imperative API, WSGI includes a special ``write()`` callable,
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returned by the ``start_response`` callable.
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New WSGI applications and frameworks **should not** use the
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New WSGI applications and frameworks **should not** use the
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``write()`` callable if it is possible to avoid doing so. The
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``write()`` callable is strictly a hack to support imperative
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streaming APIs. In general, applications should produce their
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@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ proceeds onward.
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An application **must** return an iterable object, even if it
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uses ``write()`` to produce all or part of its response body.
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The returned iterable **may** be empty (i.e. yield no non-empty
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strings), but if it *does* yield non-empty strings, that output
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strings), but if it *does* yield non-empty strings, that output
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must be treated normally by the server or gateway (i.e., it must be
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sent or queued immediately). Applications **must not** invoke
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``write()`` from within their return iterable, and therefore any
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@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ Unicode Issues
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HTTP does not directly support Unicode, and neither does this
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interface. All encoding/decoding must be handled by the application;
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all strings passed to or from the server must be standard Python byte
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strings, not Unicode objects. The result of using a Unicode object
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strings, not Unicode objects. The result of using a Unicode object
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where a string object is required, is undefined.
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Note also that strings passed to ``start_response()`` as a status or
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@ -980,9 +980,9 @@ MIME encoding.
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On Python platforms where the ``str`` or ``StringType`` type is in
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fact Unicode-based (e.g. Jython, IronPython, Python 3000, etc.), all
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"strings" referred to in this specification must contain only
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"strings" referred to in this specification must contain only
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code points representable in ISO-8859-1 encoding (``\u0000`` through
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``\u00FF``, inclusive). It is a fatal error for an application to
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``\u00FF``, inclusive). It is a fatal error for an application to
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supply strings containing any other Unicode character or code point.
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Similarly, servers and gateways **must not** supply
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strings to an application containing any other Unicode characters.
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@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ of its use::
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status = "200 Froody"
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response_headers = [("content-type","text/plain")]
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start_response(status, response_headers)
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return ["normal body goes here"]
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return ["normal body goes here"]
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except:
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# XXX should trap runtime issues like MemoryError, KeyboardInterrupt
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# in a separate handler before this bare 'except:'...
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@ -1024,21 +1024,21 @@ of its use::
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return ["error body goes here"]
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If no output has been written when an exception occurs, the call to
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``start_response`` will return normally, and the application will
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``start_response`` will return normally, and the application will
|
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return an error body to be sent to the browser. However, if any output
|
||||
has already been sent to the browser, ``start_response`` will reraise
|
||||
the provided exception. This exception **should not** be trapped by
|
||||
has already been sent to the browser, ``start_response`` will reraise
|
||||
the provided exception. This exception **should not** be trapped by
|
||||
the application, and so the application will abort. The server or
|
||||
gateway can then trap this (fatal) exception and abort the response.
|
||||
|
||||
Servers **should** trap and log any exception that aborts an
|
||||
application or the iteration of its return value. If a partial
|
||||
Servers **should** trap and log any exception that aborts an
|
||||
application or the iteration of its return value. If a partial
|
||||
response has already been written to the browser when an application
|
||||
error occurs, the server or gateway **may** attempt to add an error
|
||||
message to the output, if the already-sent headers indicate a
|
||||
``text/*`` content type that the server knows how to modify cleanly.
|
||||
|
||||
Some middleware may wish to provide additional exception handling
|
||||
Some middleware may wish to provide additional exception handling
|
||||
services, or intercept and replace application error messages. In
|
||||
such cases, middleware may choose to **not** re-raise the ``exc_info``
|
||||
supplied to ``start_response``, but instead raise a middleware-specific
|
||||
|
@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ long as application authors:
|
|||
HTTP 1.1 Expect/Continue
|
||||
------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Servers and gateways that implement HTTP 1.1 **must** provide
|
||||
Servers and gateways that implement HTTP 1.1 **must** provide
|
||||
transparent support for HTTP 1.1's "expect/continue" mechanism. This
|
||||
may be done in any of several ways:
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ may be done in any of several ways:
|
|||
response if/when the application first attempts to read from the
|
||||
input stream. The read request must then remain blocked until the
|
||||
client responds.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
3. Wait until the client decides that the server does not support
|
||||
expect/continue, and sends the request body on its own. (This
|
||||
is suboptimal, and is not recommended.)
|
||||
|
@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ a server should consider itself to be like an HTTP "gateway server",
|
|||
with the application being an HTTP "origin server". (See RFC 2616,
|
||||
section 1.3, for the definition of these terms.)
|
||||
|
||||
However, because WSGI servers and applications do not communicate via
|
||||
However, because WSGI servers and applications do not communicate via
|
||||
HTTP, what RFC 2616 calls "hop-by-hop" headers do not apply to WSGI
|
||||
internal communications. WSGI applications **must not** generate any
|
||||
"hop-by-hop" headers [4]_, attempt to use HTTP features that would
|
||||
|
@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ WSGI servers **must** handle any supported inbound "hop-by-hop" headers
|
|||
on their own, such as by decoding any inbound ``Transfer-Encoding``,
|
||||
including chunked encoding if applicable.
|
||||
|
||||
Applying these principles to a variety of HTTP features, it should be
|
||||
Applying these principles to a variety of HTTP features, it should be
|
||||
clear that a server **may** handle cache validation via the
|
||||
``If-None-Match`` and ``If-Modified-Since`` request headers and the
|
||||
``Last-Modified`` and ``ETag`` response headers. However, it is
|
||||
|
@ -1113,9 +1113,9 @@ the server/gateway is not required to do such validation.
|
|||
|
||||
Similarly, a server **may** re-encode or transport-encode an
|
||||
application's response, but the application **should** use a
|
||||
suitable content encoding on its own, and **must not** apply a
|
||||
suitable content encoding on its own, and **must not** apply a
|
||||
transport encoding. A server **may** transmit byte ranges of the
|
||||
application's response if requested by the client, and the
|
||||
application's response if requested by the client, and the
|
||||
application doesn't natively support byte ranges. Again, however,
|
||||
the application **should** perform this function on its own if desired.
|
||||
|
||||
|
@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ that every application must reimplement every HTTP feature; many HTTP
|
|||
features can be partially or fully implemented by middleware
|
||||
components, thus freeing both server and application authors from
|
||||
implementing the same features over and over again.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Thread Support
|
||||
--------------
|
||||
|
@ -1227,14 +1227,14 @@ principle can configure these externally to the server, or in the
|
|||
CGI case they may be able to be set via the server's configuration
|
||||
files.
|
||||
|
||||
Applications **should** try to keep such required variables to a
|
||||
minimum, since not all servers will support easy configuration of
|
||||
them. Of course, even in the worst case, persons deploying an
|
||||
Applications **should** try to keep such required variables to a
|
||||
minimum, since not all servers will support easy configuration of
|
||||
them. Of course, even in the worst case, persons deploying an
|
||||
application can create a script to supply the necessary configuration
|
||||
values::
|
||||
|
||||
from the_app import application
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def new_app(environ,start_response):
|
||||
environ['the_app.configval1'] = 'something'
|
||||
return application(environ,start_response)
|
||||
|
@ -1317,7 +1317,7 @@ more complex:
|
|||
also implement this protocol.)
|
||||
|
||||
Finally, middleware that wishes to support pre-2.2 versions of Python,
|
||||
and iterates over application return values or itself returns an
|
||||
and iterates over application return values or itself returns an
|
||||
iterable (or both), must follow the appropriate recommendations above.
|
||||
|
||||
(Note: It should go without saying that to support pre-2.2 versions
|
||||
|
@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ into an iterable that it then returns, e.g.::
|
|||
return iter(lambda: filelike.read(block_size), '')
|
||||
|
||||
If the server or gateway supplies ``wsgi.file_wrapper``, it must be
|
||||
a callable that accepts one required positional parameter, and one
|
||||
a callable that accepts one required positional parameter, and one
|
||||
optional positional parameter. The first parameter is the file-like
|
||||
object to be sent, and the second parameter is an optional block
|
||||
size "suggestion" (which the server/gateway need not use). The
|
||||
|
@ -1367,7 +1367,7 @@ must occur **after** the application returns, and the server or
|
|||
gateway checks to see if a wrapper object was returned. (Again,
|
||||
because of the presence of middleware, error handlers, and the like,
|
||||
it is not guaranteed that any wrapper created will actually be used.)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Apart from the handling of ``close()``, the semantics of returning a
|
||||
file wrapper from the application should be the same as if the
|
||||
application had returned ``iter(filelike.read, '')``. In other words,
|
||||
|
@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ reached.
|
|||
Of course, platform-specific file transmission APIs don't usually
|
||||
accept arbitrary "file-like" objects. Therefore, a
|
||||
``wsgi.file_wrapper`` has to introspect the supplied object for
|
||||
things such as a ``fileno()`` (Unix-like OSes) or a
|
||||
things such as a ``fileno()`` (Unix-like OSes) or a
|
||||
``java.nio.FileChannel`` (under Jython) in order to determine if
|
||||
the file-like object is suitable for use with the platform-specific
|
||||
API it supports.
|
||||
|
@ -1396,7 +1396,7 @@ file wrapper class, suitable for old (pre 2.2) and new Pythons alike::
|
|||
self.blksize = blksize
|
||||
if hasattr(filelike,'close'):
|
||||
self.close = filelike.close
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
def __getitem__(self,key):
|
||||
data = self.filelike.read(self.blksize)
|
||||
if data:
|
||||
|
@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@ access to a platform-specific API::
|
|||
|
||||
environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'] = FileWrapper
|
||||
result = application(environ, start_response)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
try:
|
||||
if isinstance(result,FileWrapper):
|
||||
# check if result.filelike is usable w/platform-specific
|
||||
|
@ -1418,10 +1418,10 @@ access to a platform-specific API::
|
|||
|
||||
for data in result:
|
||||
# etc.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
finally:
|
||||
if hasattr(result,'close'):
|
||||
result.close()
|
||||
result.close()
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Questions and Answers
|
||||
|
@ -1578,15 +1578,15 @@ or are on the PEP author's "to-do" list:
|
|||
* Should ``wsgi.input`` be an iterator instead of a file? This would
|
||||
help for asynchronous applications and chunked-encoding input
|
||||
streams.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
* Optional extensions are being discussed for pausing iteration of an
|
||||
application's ouptut until input is available or until a callback
|
||||
occurs.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
* Add a section about synchronous vs. asynchronous apps and servers,
|
||||
the relevant threading models, and issues/design goals in these
|
||||
areas.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
Acknowledgements
|
||||
================
|
||||
|
@ -1608,7 +1608,7 @@ thoughtful feedback made this revised draft possible. Especially:
|
|||
function. His input also guided the design of the exception handling
|
||||
facilities, especially in the area of allowing for middleware that
|
||||
overrides application error messages.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
* Alan Kennedy, whose courageous attempts to implement WSGI-on-Jython
|
||||
(well before the spec was finalized) helped to shape the "supporting
|
||||
older versions of Python" section, as well as the optional
|
||||
|
@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ thoughtful feedback made this revised draft possible. Especially:
|
|||
* Mark Nottingham, who reviewed the spec extensively for issues with
|
||||
HTTP RFC compliance, especially with regard to HTTP/1.1 features that
|
||||
I didn't even know existed until he pointed them out.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
References
|
||||
==========
|
||||
|
@ -1631,7 +1631,7 @@ References
|
|||
.. [3] "Chunked Transfer Coding" -- HTTP/1.1, section 3.6.1
|
||||
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html#sec3.6.1)
|
||||
|
||||
.. [4] "End-to-end and Hop-by-hop Headers" -- HTTP/1.1, Section 13.5.1
|
||||
.. [4] "End-to-end and Hop-by-hop Headers" -- HTTP/1.1, Section 13.5.1
|
||||
(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.5.1)
|
||||
|
||||
.. [5] mod_ssl Reference, "Environment Variables"
|
||||
|
|
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