Tips and Tricks

integrate with WebOb

WebOb has wsgify decorator that makes callable wsgi application.

WebDispatch provides webdispatch.mixins.URLMapperMixin to add generate_url method to Request class.

use generator mixin:

class MyRequest(Request, URLMapperMixin):
    pass

@wsgify(RequestClass=MyRequest)
def view(request):
    return "Hello"

generate absolute url on backend of reverse proxy.

When application is forwarded by reverse proxy, below headers are given.

• HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SERVE
• HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST
• HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR
• HTTP_X_FORWARDED_SCHEME
• HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO

use paste.deploy.config.PrefixMiddleware.

[pipeline:main]
pipeline =
   prefix
   app

[filter:prefix]
use = egg:PasteDeploy#prefix
scheme = https