Any request will be served by web server. If you read the code of web/wsgiserver/__init__.py you will find the '/static/' url will served by SimpleHttpHandler.
Otherwise, you can configure you top webcontainer to server it such as lighttpd,apache. 2009-11-02 shwdai 发件人： xrfang 发送时间： 2009-11-02 07:21:42 收件人： web.py 抄送： 主题： [webpy] Re: serving static file but, what is the flaw of my suggestion? See the original post, item 1). :) BTW, is there any performance (or resource) penalty to let webpy handle static file (especially large downloads) instead of let the web server handle it? tks. On Nov 2, 7:09 am, "shwdai" <[email protected]> wrote: > You can write a 'StaticFileHandler' class to handler the static File. > So you can use any url of static file you want. > > urls = ( > '/(css|images|js)/(.+)', 'static', > ) > > class StaticFileHandler: > def GET(self, category, path): > abspath = os.path.join(root, 'static', category, path) > if not abspath.startswith(root) or not os.path.exists(abspath): > raise web.notfound() > stat_result = os.stat(abspath) > modified = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(stat_result[stat.ST_MTIME]) > ims_value = web.ctx.environ.get("HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE") > if ims_value and str(ims_value) >= str(modified): > raise web.notmodified() > web.header("Last-Modified", modified) > web.header("Content-Length", stat_result[stat.ST_SIZE]) > web.header("Cache-Control", "public") > mime_type, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(abspath) > if mime_type: web.header("Content-Type", mime_type) > return file(abspath).read() > > 2009-11-02 > > shwdai > > 发件人： xrfang > 发送时间： 2009-11-01 08:44:44 > 收件人： web.py > 抄送： > 主题： [webpy] serving static file > > Hi there, > I found a post discussing static file serving. I am also from PHP and > has the same confusion. I have a thinking, why cannot we use an > internal variable such as web.static_path (which default to "/ > static/") to specify which folder is static? This way, we can specify > more than one static folder such as /styles/, /img/, /downloads/, this > will be handy. And this static_path variable can be a regex, or a > list/tuple of string/regex. What do you think? > 2ndly, if use webpy with other servers such as apache or the GAE, is > the /static/ file serving directly hand-over to the web server, or it > is still streamed by webpy? > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/webpy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
