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Overview
The WSGI has two sides:
- the server/gateway side. This is often running full web server software such as Apache or Nginx.
- the application/framework side. This is a Python callable, supplied by the Python program or framework.
Between the server and the application, there may be one or more WSGI middleware components, which implement both sides of the API, typically in Python code.
WSGI does not specify how the Python interpreter should be started, nor how the application object should be loaded or configured, and different frameworks and webservers achieve this in different ways.
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WSGI's Purpose
Why use WSGI and not just point a web server directly at an application?
- WSGI gives you flexibility. Application developers can swap out web stack components for others. For example, a developer can switch from Green Unicorn to uWSGI without modifying the application o...
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WSGI Middleware
A WSGI middleware component is a Python callable that is itself a WSGI application, but may handle requests by delegating to other WSGI applications. These applications can themselves be WSGI middleware components.
A middleware component can perform such functions as:
- Routing a r...
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Why is WSGI necessary?
A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to run Python applications.
Therefore the Python community came up with WSGI as a standard interface that modules and containers could implement. WSGI is now the accepted approach for running Python web applications.
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Why is WSGI necessary?
A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to run Python applications.
Therefore the Python community came up with WSGI as a standard interface that modules and containers could implement. WSGI is now the accepted approach for running Python web applications.
As sho...
WSGI Middleware
A WSGI middleware component is a Python callable that is itself a WSGI application, but may handle requests by delegating to other WSGI applications. These applications can themselves be WSGI middleware components.
A middleware component can perform such functions as:
- Routing a r...
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