Meinheld

The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) defines a simple and universal interface between web servers and web applications or frameworks for the Python programming language.

Meinheld uses the high performance http_parser C tool and the event library picoev.

On a system with Intel Atom CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz, a memoy of 1G running on Ubuntu 10.04, the server managed to handle 2927.62 requests per second.

In the same test the fapws3 0.6 server handled 1293.53 requests per second.

What is new in this release:

• Support PEP3333
• Support custom access logger and error logger
• Support Server Side Event

What is new in version 0.4.14:

• Fixed greenlet version 0.3.4.
• Fixed graceful reload for gunicorn.
• Enabled set existing socket to listen function. (use keyword args "socket_fd").

What is new in version 0.4.13:

• Fix release GIL.

What is new in version 0.4.10:

• Added werkzeug support patch.

What is new in version 0.4.9:

• Fix missing last-chunk's CRLF.

What is new in version 0.4.8:

• Fix missing last-chunk's CRLF.

What is new in version 0.4.7:

• Fix conver to wsgi input's cStringIO slow.
• Add new StringIO.
• Improve performance optimize(use new StringIO).

What is new in version 0.4.6:

• Add get_ident. instead of werkzeug.local.get_ident.
• Change read timeout value(30sec).
• Add client_body_buffer_size.

What is new in version 0.4.5:

• Fix don't set Transfer-Encoding when body length zero.

Requirements:

• Python 2.x up to 2.5