[Web-SIG] WSGI multi threading indications?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 08:38 AM 1/8/2007 -0800, Foobar BazBaz wrote:
>I'm using wsgiref.simple_server running behind Apache.
>(Created using wsgiref.simple_server.make_server)
>
>I see:
>   wsgi.multiprocess is False
>   wsgi.multithread is True
>   wsgi.run_once is False
>
>I'm surprised by the value of multithread, since it
>appears
>(and looking at the code seems to verify) that
>additional
>threads are never created; i.e. the server
>synchronously
>handles one request at a time.
>
>Am I missing something?

The simple_server never creates multiple threads, but it's potentially 
multi-threadable.  It probably shouldn't be saying multithread unless it 
knows it is.  The WSGIRequestHandler.handle() method is the culprit; it 
should probably be checking self.server in some way and passing an 
appropriate multithread flag to the newly created ServerHandler.