Waitress WSGI server
Project description
Waitress is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2. It is also known to run on PyPy 1.6.0 on UNIX. It supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
For more information, see the “docs” directory of the Waitress package or http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/ .
0.8.2 (2012-11-14)
Bug Fixes
http://corte.si/posts/code/pathod/pythonservers/index.html pointed out that sending a bad header resulted in an exception leading to a 500 response instead of the more proper 400 response without an exception.
Fix a race condition in the test suite.
Allow “ident” to be used as a keyword to serve() as per docs.
Add py33 to tox.ini.
0.8.1 (2012-02-13)
Bug Fixes
A brown-bag bug prevented request concurrency. A slow request would block subsequent the responses of subsequent requests until the slow request’s response was fully generated. This was due to a “task lock” being declared as a class attribute rather than as an instance attribute on HTTPChannel. Also took the opportunity to move another lock named “outbuf lock” to the channel instance rather than the class. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/1 .
0.8 (2012-01-31)
Features
Support the WSGI wsgi.file_wrapper protocol as per http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/#optional-platform-specific-file-handling. Here’s a usage example:
import os here = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) def myapp(environ, start_response): f = open(os.path.join(here, 'myphoto.jpg'), 'rb') headers = [('Content-Type', 'image/jpeg')] start_response( '200 OK', headers ) return environ['wsgi.file_wrapper'](f, 32768)The signature of the file wrapper constructor is (filelike_object, block_size). Both arguments must be passed as positional (not keyword) arguments. The result of creating a file wrapper should be returned as the app_iter from a WSGI application.
The object passed as filelike_object to the wrapper must be a file-like object which supports at least the read() method, and the read() method must support an optional size hint argument. It should support the seek() and tell() methods. If it does not, normal iteration over the filelike object using the provided block_size is used (and copying is done, negating any benefit of the file wrapper). It should support a close() method.
The specified block_size argument to the file wrapper constructor will be used only when the filelike_object doesn’t support seek and/or tell methods. Waitress needs to use normal iteration to serve the file in this degenerate case (as per the WSGI spec), and this block size will be used as the iteration chunk size. The block_size argument is optional; if it is not passed, a default value``32768`` is used.
Waitress will set a Content-Length header on the behalf of an application when a file wrapper with a sufficiently filelike object is used if the application hasn’t already set one.
The machinery which handles a file wrapper currently doesn’t do anything particularly special using fancy system calls (it doesn’t use sendfile for example); using it currently just prevents the system from needing to copy data to a temporary buffer in order to send it to the client. No copying of data is done when a WSGI app returns a file wrapper that wraps a sufficiently filelike object. It may do something fancier in the future.
0.7 (2012-01-11)
Features
Default send_bytes value is now 18000 instead of 9000. The larger default value prevents asyncore from needing to execute select so many times to serve large files, speeding up file serving by about 15%-20% or so. This is probably only an optimization for LAN communications, and could slow things down across a WAN (due to higher TCP overhead), but we’re likely to be behind a reverse proxy on a LAN anyway if in production.
Added an (undocumented) profiling feature to the serve() command.
0.6.1 (2012-01-08)
Bug Fixes
Remove performance-sapping call to pull_trigger in the channel’s write_soon method added mistakenly in 0.6.
0.6 (2012-01-07)
Bug Fixes
A logic error prevented the internal outbuf buffer of a channel from being flushed when the client could not accept the entire contents of the output buffer in a single succession of socket.send calls when the channel was in a “pending close” state. The socket in such a case would be closed prematurely, sometimes resulting in partially delivered content. This was discovered by a user using waitress behind an Nginx reverse proxy, which apparently is not always ready to receive data. The symptom was that he received “half” of a large CSS file (110K) while serving content via waitress behind the proxy.
0.5 (2012-01-03)
Bug Fixes
Fix PATH_INFO encoding/decoding on Python 3 (as per PEP 3333, tunnel bytes-in-unicode-as-latin-1-after-unquoting).
0.4 (2012-01-02)
Features
Added “design” document to docs.
Bug Fixes
Set default connection_limit back to 100 for benefit of maximal platform compatibility.
Normalize setting of last_activity during send.
Minor resource cleanups during tests.
Channel timeout cleanup was broken.
0.3 (2012-01-02)
Features
Dont hang a thread up trying to send data to slow clients.
Use self.logger to log socket errors instead of self.log_info (normalize).
Remove pointless handle_error method from channel.
Queue requests instead of tasks in a channel.
Bug Fixes
Expect: 100-continue responses were broken.
0.2 (2011-12-31)
Bug Fixes
Set up logging by calling logging.basicConfig() when serve is called (show tracebacks and other warnings to console by default).
Disallow WSGI applications to set “hop-by-hop” headers (Connection, Transfer-Encoding, etc).
Don’t treat 304 status responses specially in HTTP/1.1 mode.
Remove out of date interfaces.py file.
Normalize logging (all output is now sent to the waitress logger rather than in degenerate cases some output being sent directly to stderr).
Features
Support HTTP/1.1 Transfer-Encoding: chunked responses.
Slightly better docs about logging.
0.1 (2011-12-30)
Initial release.
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