Features¶

Testing¶

A fixture for testing WSGI applications conveniently and in-process, in paste.fixture.TestApp
A fixture for testing command-line applications, also in paste.fixture.TestFileEnvironment
Check components for WSGI-compliance in paste.lint
Check filesystem changes, with paste.debug.fsdiff

A threaded HTTP server in paste.httpserver
A tool for seeing and killing errant threads in the HTTP server, in paste.debug.watchthreads

Chain and cascade WSGI applications (returning the first non-error response) in paste.cascade
Dispatch to several WSGI applications based on URL prefixes, in paste.urlmap
Allow applications to make subrequests and forward requests internally, in paste.recursive
Redirect error pages (e.g., 404 Not Found) to custom error pages, in paste.errordocument.

Easily deal with incoming requests and sending a response in paste.wsgiwrappers
Work directly with the WSGI environment in paste.request
Run CGI programs as WSGI applications in paste.cgiapp
Traverse files and load WSGI applications from .py files (or static files), in paste.urlparser
Serve static directories of files, also in paste.urlparser; also serve using the Setuptools pkg_resources resource API.
Proxy to other servers, treating external HTTP servers as WSGI applications, in paste.proxy.
Serve files (with support for If-Modified-Since, etc) in paste.fileapp

Catch HTTP-related exceptions (e.g., HTTPNotFound) and turn them into proper responses in paste.httpexceptions
Manage HTTP header fields with paste.httpheaders
Handle authentication/identification of requests in paste.auth
Create sessions in paste.session and paste.flup_session
Gzip responses in paste.gzipper
A wide variety of routines for manipulating WSGI requests and producing responses, in paste.request, paste.response and paste.wsgilib.
Create Apache-style logs in paste.translogger
Handy request and response wrappers in paste.wsgiwrappers
Handling of request-local module globals sanely in paste.registry

Authentication using cookies in paste.auth.cookie and paste.auth.auth_tkt; login form in paste.auth.form
Authentication using OpenID in paste.auth.open_id, using CAS in paste.auth.cas
HTTP authentication in paste.auth.basic and paste.auth.digest
Dispatch to different authentication methods based on User-Agent, in paste.auth.multi
Grant roles based on IP addresses, in paste.auth.grantip

Catch (optionally email) errors with extended tracebacks (using Zope/ZPT conventions) in paste.exceptions
During debugging, show tracebacks with information about each stack frame, including an interactive prompt that runs in the individual stack frames, in paste.evalexception.
Catch errors presenting a cgitb-based output, in paste.cgitb_catcher.
Profile each request and append profiling information to the HTML, in paste.debug.profile
Capture print output and present it in the browser for debugging, in paste.debug.prints
Validate all HTML output from applications using the WDG Validator, appending any errors or warnings to the page, in paste.debug.wdg_validator

A file monitor to allow restarting the server when files have been updated (for automatic restarting when editing code) in paste.reloader
A class for generating and traversing URLs, and creating associated HTML code, in paste.url
A small templating language (for internal use) in paste.util.template
A class to help with loops in templates, in paste.util.looper
Import modules and objects given a string, in paste.util.import_string
Ordered dictionary that can have multiple values with the same key, in paste.util.multidict