Web Server Gateway Interface - Example Application

Example Application

A WSGI-compatible “Hello World” application written in Python:

def application(environ, start_response): start_response('200 OK', ) yield 'Hello World\n'

Where:

• Line 1 defines a callable named application, which takes two parameters, environ and start_response. environ is a dictionary containing environment variables in CGI. start_response is a callable taking two required parameters status and response_headers.
• Line 2 calls start_response, specifying "200 OK" as the status and a "Content-Type" header.
• Line 3 returns the body of response as a string literal.