waitress 0.8.5

0.8.5 (2013-05-27)

• Fix runner multisegment imports in some Python 2 revisions (see https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/34).

• For compatibility, WSGIServer is now an alias of TcpWSGIServer. The signature of BaseWSGIServer is now compatible with WSGIServer pre-0.8.4.

0.8.4 (2013-05-24)

• Add a command-line runner called waitress-serve to allow Waitress to run WSGI applications without any addional machinery. This is essentially a thin wrapper around the waitress.serve() function.

• Allow parallel testing (e.g., under detox or nosetests --processes) using PID-dependent port / socket for functest servers.

• Fix integer overflow errors on large buffers. Thanks to Marcin Kuzminski for the patch. See: https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/issues/22

• Add support for listening on Unix domain sockets.

0.8.3 (2013-04-28)

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)

0.3 (2012-01-02)

0.2 (2011-12-31)

0.1 (2011-12-30)

• Initial release.