[Web-SIG] Preferred set of WSGI servers

[Rene Dudfield]

Supporting fastcgi is useful for two reasons.

Supporting fastcgi so that you can be called by another httpd, eg
apache, or lighttpd.  Some people allready use fastcgi to call php,
python or ruby on rails apps.

Supporting it to call php, or ruby on rails apps.  This way, twisted
could run .php files as almost fast as apache.  lighttpd an async
httpd server uses fastcgi for running php, and it is quite fast, as
well as being more secure than running mod_php with apache.



On 4/30/05, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:
> <What I want in a WSGI server>
> 
> twisted.web2 supports: HTTP, HTTPS, CGI, and I wrote SCGI yesterday and
> will commit it this weekend. FastCGI looks like a complicated protocol,
> so it'll probably be a bit harder than SCGI to implement. Is there
> actually a reason to support it as well as SCGI?
> 
> Right now, web2 runs WSGI apps in threads. It'd be possible to write a
> wrapper that runs them in their own processes, too, but would that give
> any advantage vs the simple CGI->WSGI wrapper that already exists? You
> can just use web2's ability to run CGIs to run
> WSGI-in-separate-processes also.
> 
> It is my desire to enable twisted.web2 to be used to host any
> application in any environment, by providing a number of different
> deployment options and app running options.
> 
> I've been developing it somewhat under the radar, but It's getting to
> the point where it's fairly stable. At this point the major TODO is
> sitting down and writing some documentation, so I'll try to get an
> alpha release out soon.
> 
> Here's the high-level description from the (work-in-progress) docs:
> > Twisted.web2 is an asynchronous HTTP 1.1 server written for the
> > Twisted internet framework. It provides a RFC 2616 compliant HTTP 1.1
> > protocol implementation, with pipelined and persistent request
> > support, in a non-blocking threadless manner.
> >
> > It also includes a simple web framework with request and response
> > objects, static file support, error handling, form upload support,
> > HTTP range support, pre-built parsers for all standard headers, and a
> > bunch of other goodies.
> >
> > It is deployable as a standard TCP or SSL web server, or as a CGI
> > script invoked by another server. Other deployment mechanisms (such as
> > SCGI) are planned.
> >
> > In addition to running native twisted.web2 applications, it can also
> > run any WSGI or CGI application, or, via compatibility wrappers, most
> > applications written for the older twisted.web and nevow APIs.
> >
> > Currently, twisted.web2 does not include a HTTP client or proxy, but
> > will at a future date.
> 
> Also includes extra goodies such as automatic range support for all
> resources, automatic if-[un]modified-since/if-[none-]match support if
> you provide the proper headers, and optional automatic gzipping.
> 
> James
> 
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