[Web-SIG] WSGI diagram

[Ian Bicking]

Cliff Wells wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's someone working on a mod_wsgi module for the Nginx HTTP
> server/proxy and Nginx's author was asking if there is a diagram
> somewhere outlining the WSGI protocol (I think perhaps he'd help if he
> understood WSGI).  I google'd a bit but came up empty-handed.
> 
> Anyone know of anything?

I've seen a few I think, but I'm not sure -- probably nothing that would 
help him that much.  There's some links on 
http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Learn_WSGI -- but I think they are all more for 
applications, not for people implementing servers.

If Nginx wanted to support Python really well, I think doing process 
management would be the most ideal way to do that.  That's kind of what 
FastCGI does, but with lots of different options and some general 
confusion.  Nginx could potentially implement FastCGI (or a protocol 
like SCGI or any other over-the-wire protocol they thought best) with 
intelligently chosen process management, potentially with a client 
library (maybe a customized Flup) that invoked everything properly.

It's really more of an integration issue than a protocol issue.  But if 
Nginx makes the integration clear, easy, and robust then they'd create 
something quite useful.  And probably applicable to other languages like 
Ruby as well.


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