[Python-Dev] [Web-SIG] Adding wsgiref to stdlib (original) (raw)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Fri Apr 28 22:31:08 CEST 2006

Guido van Rossum wrote:

It still looks like an application of WSGI, not part of a reference implementation. Multiple apps looks like an advanced topic to me; more something that the infrastructure (Apache server or whatever) ought to take care of.

I don't understand the distinction between "application of WSGI" and "reference implementation". The reference implementation is an application of WSGI... using the reference implementation doesn't make something more or less WSGI.

Also, wsgiref is infrastructure. When using the HTTP server, there is no other infrastructure, there is nothing else that will do this prefix dispatching for you.

Apache and other web servers also provides this functionality, and with the right configuration it will provide the identical environment as a prefix dispatcher. To me that's a positive. I've seen cases where other people have done the same prefix dispatching in Python without matching the interface of anybody else's code or environment; that's the sort of thing a reference implementation is meant to keep people from doing.

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