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Waitress is a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 3.8+. It is also known to run on PyPy 3 (version 3.8 compatible python and above) on UNIX. It supports HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
For more information, see the "docs" directory of the Waitress package or visit https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/
Rename "master" git branch to "main"
Fix a bug that would appear on macOS whereby if we accept() a socket that is already gone, setting socket options would fail and take down the server. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/399
Fixed testing of vendored asyncore code to not rely on particular naming for errno's. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/397
HTTP Request methods and versions are now validated to meet the HTTP standards thereby dropping invalid requests on the floor. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/423
No longer close the connection when sending a HEAD request response. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/428
Always attempt to send the Connection: close response header when we are going to close the connection to let the remote know in more instances. https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/429
Python 3.7 is no longer supported. Add support for Python 3.11, 3.12 and PyPy 3.9, 3.10. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/412
Document that trusted_proxy may be set to a wildcard value to trust all proxies. See https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/431
Updated Defaults
- clear_untrusted_proxy_headers is set to True by default. See
https://github.com/Pylons/waitress/pull/370
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Waitress WSGI server
We found that waitress demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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