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 request to different application objects based on the target URL, after changing the environment variables accordingly.
- Allowing multiple applications or frameworks to run side-by-side in the same process.
- Load balancing and remote processing, by forwarding requests and responses over a network.
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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, t...
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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