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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:55:33 -0800, Alena Bacova <>
wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using:
>
> from wsgiref import simple_server
> httpd = simple_server.make_server(HOST, PORT, Test)
> try:
> httpd.serve_forever()
> except KeyboardInterrupt:
> pass
>
> But I can use something else if needed. Application and htmk, css and
> images are stored on the same machine, everything is stored in one
> folder.
>
> Alena.
>

If you are just using this to learn to develop WSGI applications, I would
recommend implementing a method to distinguish requests for static files,
and handle them separately. A very naive implementation handling .css
files might look like:

from wsgiref import util
import os

def do_get(environ, start_response):
REQUEST_URI = util.request_uri(environ)
if (REQUEST_URI.endswith('.css')):
return do_css(REQUEST_URI, start_response)

# your regular code here

def do_css(request_uri, start_response):
full_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(MY_HTTP_DIRECTORY, request_uri))
if os.path.exists(full_path):
file_obj = open(full_path, 'r')
response_lines = file_obj.readlines()
file_obj.close()
start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/css')])
return response_lines
else:
start_response('404 Not Found', [])
return []

However, this method is fragile and very inefficient. If you want to
eventually deploy this application somewhere, I would suggest starting
with a different method.

Hope that helps,
Rami

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RE: serving static CSS files using WSGI

> ...However, this method is fragile and very inefficient. If you want to *
> eventually deploy this application somewhere, I would suggest starting *
> with a different method.

The WHIFF WSGI tools are meant to make this kind of thing easy.
In fact the quick start tells you how to do this

http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/...500.quickstart

And if you want to deploy to the Google App Engine there's a
tutorial for that too:

http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/...2300.GAEDeploy

For example the http://listtree.appspot.com/ service is implemented
using WHIFF under the Google App Engine environment.

-- Aaron Watters

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