[Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

[Guido van Rossum]

On 2/14/06, Alan Kennedy <pywebsig at xhaus.com> wrote:
> [Ian Bicking]
> > Note that the scope of a WSGI server is very very limited.  It is quite
> > distinct from an XMLRPC server from that perspective -- an XMLRPC server
> > actually *does* something.  A WSGI server does nothing but delegate.
>
> and
>
> > I'm not set on "production" quality code, but I think the general
> > sentiment against that is entirely premature.  The implementations
> > brought up -- CherryPy's
> > (http://svn.cherrypy.org/trunk/cherrypy/_cphttpserver.py) and Paste's
> > (http://svn.pythonpaste.org/Paste/trunk/paste/httpserver.py) and
> > wsgiref's
> > (http://cvs.eby-sarna.com/wsgiref/src/wsgiref/simple_server.py?rev=1.2&view=markup)
> > are all pretty short.  It would be better to discuss the particulars. Is
> > there a code path in one or more of these servers which you think is
> > unneeded and problematic?
>
> A few points.
>
> 1. My opinion is not relevant to whether/which WSGI server goes into the
> standard library. What's required is for someone to propose to
> python-dev that a particular WSGI server should go into the standard
> library. I imagine that the response on python-dev to the proposer is
> going to be along the lines of "Will you be maintaining this?" If/when
> python-dev is happy, then it'll go into the distribution.
>
> 2. What's wrong with leaving the current situation as-is, i.e. the
> available WSGI implementations are listed on the WSGI Moin page
>
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/WSGIImplementations
>
> 3. If I had to pick one of the 3 you suggested, I'd pick the last one,
> i.e. PJE's, because it fulfills exactly the criteria I listed
>
>   - It's pretty much the simplest possible implementation, meaning it's
> easiest to understand.
>   - It's based on the existing *HttpServer hierarchy
>   - It's got a big notice at the top saying """This is both an example
> of how WSGI can be implemented, and a basis for running simple web
> applications on a local machine, such as might be done when testing or
> debugging an application.  It has not been reviewed for security issues,
> however, and we strongly recommend that you use a "real" web server for
> production use."""

Let's make it so. I propose to add wsgiref to the standard library and
nothing more.

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