Paste 1.7.5.1

Tools for using a Web Server Gateway Interface stack

Testing

• A fixture for testing WSGI applications conveniently and in-process, in paste.fixture
• A fixture for testing command-line applications, also in paste.fixture
• Check components for WSGI-compliance in paste.lint

Dispatching

• 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

Web Application

• 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 in that module serving from Egg resources using pkg_resources.

Tools

• Catch HTTP-related exceptions (e.g., HTTPNotFound) and turn them into proper responses in paste.httpexceptions
• Several authentication techniques, including HTTP (Basic and Digest), signed cookies, and CAS single-signon, in the paste.auth package.
• Create sessions in paste.session and paste.flup_session
• Gzip responses in paste.gzip
• A wide variety of routines for manipulating WSGI requests and producing responses, in paste.request, paste.response and paste.wsgilib

Debugging Filters

• Catch (optionally email) errors with extended tracebacks (using Zope/ZPT conventions) in paste.exceptions
• 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

Other Tools

• 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

The latest version is available in a Subversion repository.

For the latest changes see the news file.