"""Base classes for server/gateway implementations"""
from types import StringType
from util import FileWrapper, guess_scheme, is_hop_by_hop
from headers import Headers
__all__ = ['BaseHandler', 'SimpleHandler', 'BaseCGIHandler', 'CGIHandler']
# Uncomment for 2.2 compatibility.
# Weekday and month names for HTTP date/time formatting; always English!
_weekdayname = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"]
_monthname = [None, # Dummy so we can use 1-based month numbers
"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
"Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]
def format_date_time(timestamp):
year, month, day, hh, mm, ss, wd, y, z = time.gmtime(timestamp)
return "%s, %02d %3s %4d %02d:%02d:%02d GMT" % (
_weekdayname[wd], day, _monthname[month], year, hh, mm, ss
"""Manage the invocation of a WSGI application"""
# Configuration parameters; can override per-subclass or per-instance
origin_server = True # We are transmitting direct to client
http_version = "1.0" # Version that should be used for response
server_software = None # String name of server software, if any
# os_environ is used to supply configuration from the OS environment:
# by default it's a copy of 'os.environ' as of import time, but you can
# override this in e.g. your __init__ method.
os_environ = dict(os.environ.items())
wsgi_file_wrapper = FileWrapper # set to None to disable
headers_class = Headers # must be a Headers-like class
# Error handling (also per-subclass or per-instance)
traceback_limit = None # Print entire traceback to self.get_stderr()
error_status = "500 Internal Server Error"
error_headers = [('Content-Type','text/plain')]
error_body = "A server error occurred. Please contact the administrator."
# State variables (don't mess with these)
def run(self, application):
"""Invoke the application"""
# Note to self: don't move the close()! Asynchronous servers shouldn't
# call close() from finish_response(), so if you close() anywhere but
# the double-error branch here, you'll break asynchronous servers by
# prematurely closing. Async servers must return from 'run()' without
# closing if there might still be output to iterate over.
self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
# If we get an error handling an error, just give up already!
raise # ...and let the actual server figure it out.
"""Set up the environment for one request"""
env = self.environ = self.os_environ.copy()
env['wsgi.input'] = self.get_stdin()
env['wsgi.errors'] = self.get_stderr()
env['wsgi.version'] = self.wsgi_version
env['wsgi.run_once'] = self.wsgi_run_once
env['wsgi.url_scheme'] = self.get_scheme()
env['wsgi.multithread'] = self.wsgi_multithread
env['wsgi.multiprocess'] = self.wsgi_multiprocess
if self.wsgi_file_wrapper is not None:
env['wsgi.file_wrapper'] = self.wsgi_file_wrapper
if self.origin_server and self.server_software:
env.setdefault('SERVER_SOFTWARE',self.server_software)
def finish_response(self):
"""Send any iterable data, then close self and the iterable
Subclasses intended for use in asynchronous servers will
want to redefine this method, such that it sets up callbacks
in the event loop to iterate over the data, and to call
'self.close()' once the response is finished.
if not self.result_is_file() or not self.sendfile():
"""Return the URL scheme being used"""
return guess_scheme(self.environ)
def set_content_length(self):
"""Compute Content-Length or switch to chunked encoding if possible"""
blocks = len(self.result)
except (TypeError,AttributeError,NotImplementedError):
self.headers['Content-Length'] = str(self.bytes_sent)
# XXX Try for chunked encoding if origin server and client is 1.1
def cleanup_headers(self):
"""Make any necessary header changes or defaults
Subclasses can extend this to add other defaults.
if 'Content-Length' not in self.headers:
self.set_content_length()
def start_response(self, status, headers,exc_info=None):
"""'start_response()' callable as specified by PEP 333"""
# Re-raise original exception if headers sent
raise exc_info[0], exc_info[1], exc_info[2]
exc_info = None # avoid dangling circular ref
elif self.headers is not None:
raise AssertionError("Headers already set!")
assert type(status) is StringType,"Status must be a string"
assert len(status)>=4,"Status must be at least 4 characters"
assert int(status[:3]),"Status message must begin w/3-digit code"
assert status[3]==" ", "Status message must have a space after code"
assert type(name) is StringType,"Header names must be strings"
assert type(val) is StringType,"Header values must be strings"
assert not is_hop_by_hop(name),"Hop-by-hop headers not allowed"
self.headers = self.headers_class(headers)
"""Transmit version/status/date/server, via self._write()"""
if self.client_is_modern():
self._write('HTTP/%s %s\r\n' % (self.http_version,self.status))
if 'Date' not in self.headers:
'Date: %s\r\n' % format_date_time(time.time())
if self.server_software and 'Server' not in self.headers:
self._write('Server: %s\r\n' % self.server_software)
self._write('Status: %s\r\n' % self.status)
"""'write()' callable as specified by PEP 333"""
assert type(data) is StringType,"write() argument must be string"
raise AssertionError("write() before start_response()")
elif not self.headers_sent:
# Before the first output, send the stored headers
self.bytes_sent = len(data) # make sure we know content-length
self.bytes_sent += len(data)
# XXX check Content-Length and truncate if too many bytes written?
"""Platform-specific file transmission
Override this method in subclasses to support platform-specific
file transmission. It is only called if the application's
return iterable ('self.result') is an instance of
'self.wsgi_file_wrapper'.
This method should return a true value if it was able to actually
transmit the wrapped file-like object using a platform-specific
approach. It should return a false value if normal iteration
should be used instead. An exception can be raised to indicate
that transmission was attempted, but failed.
NOTE: this method should call 'self.send_headers()' if
'self.headers_sent' is false and it is going to attempt direct
transmission of the file.
return False # No platform-specific transmission by default
def finish_content(self):
"""Ensure headers and content have both been sent"""
if not self.headers_sent:
# Only zero Content-Length if not set by the application (so
# that HEAD requests can be satisfied properly, see #3839)
self.headers.setdefault('Content-Length', "0")
pass # XXX check if content-length was too short?
"""Close the iterable (if needed) and reset all instance vars
Subclasses may want to also drop the client connection.
if hasattr(self.result,'close'):
self.result = self.headers = self.status = self.environ = None
self.bytes_sent = 0; self.headers_sent = False
"""Transmit headers to the client, via self._write()"""
if not self.origin_server or self.client_is_modern():
self._write(str(self.headers))
def result_is_file(self):
"""True if 'self.result' is an instance of 'self.wsgi_file_wrapper'"""
wrapper = self.wsgi_file_wrapper
return wrapper is not None and isinstance(self.result,wrapper)
def client_is_modern(self):
"""True if client can accept status and headers"""
return self.environ['SERVER_PROTOCOL'].upper() != 'HTTP/0.9'
def log_exception(self,exc_info):
"""Log the 'exc_info' tuple in the server log
Subclasses may override to retarget the output or change its format.
from traceback import print_exception
stderr = self.get_stderr()
exc_info[0], exc_info[1], exc_info[2],
self.traceback_limit, stderr
"""Log current error, and send error output to client if possible"""
self.log_exception(sys.exc_info())
if not self.headers_sent:
self.result = self.error_output(self.environ, self.start_response)
# XXX else: attempt advanced recovery techniques for HTML or text?
def error_output(self, environ, start_response):
"""WSGI mini-app to create error output
By default, this just uses the 'error_status', 'error_headers',
and 'error_body' attributes to generate an output page. It can
be overridden in a subclass to dynamically generate diagnostics,
choose an appropriate message for the user's preferred language, etc.
Note, however, that it's not recommended from a security perspective to
spit out diagnostics to any old user; ideally, you should have to do
something special to enable diagnostic output, which is why we don't
start_response(self.error_status,self.error_headers[:],sys.exc_info())
# Pure abstract methods; *must* be overridden in subclasses
"""Override in subclass to buffer data for send to client
It's okay if this method actually transmits the data; BaseHandler
just separates write and flush operations for greater efficiency
when the underlying system actually has such a distinction.
raise NotImplementedError
"""Override in subclass to force sending of recent '_write()' calls
It's okay if this method is a no-op (i.e., if '_write()' actually
raise NotImplementedError
"""Override in subclass to return suitable 'wsgi.input'"""
raise NotImplementedError
"""Override in subclass to return suitable 'wsgi.errors'"""
raise NotImplementedError
"""Override in subclass to insert CGI variables in 'self.environ'"""
raise NotImplementedError
class SimpleHandler(BaseHandler):
"""Handler that's just initialized with streams, environment, etc.
This handler subclass is intended for synchronous HTTP/1.0 origin servers,
and handles sending the entire response output, given the correct inputs.
inp,out,err,env, multithread=False, multiprocess=True
def __init__(self,stdin,stdout,stderr,environ,
multithread=True, multiprocess=False
self.wsgi_multithread = multithread
self.wsgi_multiprocess = multiprocess
self.environ.update(self.base_env)
self._write = self.stdout.write
self._flush = self.stdout.flush
class BaseCGIHandler(SimpleHandler):
"""CGI-like systems using input/output/error streams and environ mapping
handler = BaseCGIHandler(inp,out,err,env)
This handler class is useful for gateway protocols like ReadyExec and
FastCGI, that have usable input/output/error streams and an environment
mapping. It's also the base class for CGIHandler, which just uses
sys.stdin, os.environ, and so on.
The constructor also takes keyword arguments 'multithread' and
'multiprocess' (defaulting to 'True' and 'False' respectively) to control
the configuration sent to the application. It sets 'origin_server' to
False (to enable CGI-like output), and assumes that 'wsgi.run_once' is
class CGIHandler(BaseCGIHandler):
"""CGI-based invocation via sys.stdin/stdout/stderr and os.environ
The difference between this class and BaseCGIHandler is that it always
uses 'wsgi.run_once' of 'True', 'wsgi.multithread' of 'False', and
'wsgi.multiprocess' of 'True'. It does not take any initialization
parameters, but always uses 'sys.stdin', 'os.environ', and friends.
If you need to override any of these parameters, use BaseCGIHandler
# Do not allow os.environ to leak between requests in Google App Engine
# and other multi-run CGI use cases. This is not easily testable.
# See http://bugs.python.org/issue7250
self, sys.stdin, sys.stdout, sys.stderr, dict(os.environ.items()),
multithread=False, multiprocess=True