Arguments to waitress.serve
Here are the arguments you can pass to the waitress.serve` function or use
in PasteDeploy configuration (interchangeably):
- host
- hostname or IP address (string) on which to listen, default 0.0.0.0,
which means “all IP addresses on this host”.
- port
- TCP port (integer) on which to listen, default 8080
- unix_socket
Path of Unix socket (string), default is None. If a socket path is
specified, a Unix domain socket is made instead of the usual inet domain
socket.
Not available on Windows.
- unix_socket_perms
- Octal permissions to use for the Unix domain socket (string), default is
600. Only used if unix_socket is not None.
- threads
- number of threads used to process application logic (integer), default
4
- trusted_proxy
- IP address of a client allowed to override url_scheme via the
X_FORWARDED_PROTO header.
- url_scheme
- default wsgi.url_scheme value (string), default http; can be
overridden per-request by the value of the X_FORWARDED_PROTO header,
but only if the client address matches trusted_proxy.
- ident
- server identity (string) used in “Server:” header in responses, default
waitress
- backlog
- backlog is the value waitress passes to pass to socket.listen()
(integer), default 1024. This is the maximum number of incoming TCP
connections that will wait in an OS queue for an available channel. From
listen(1): “If a connection request arrives when the queue is full, the
client may receive an error with an indication of ECONNREFUSED or, if the
underlying protocol supports retransmission, the request may be ignored
so that a later reattempt at connection succeeds.”
- recv_bytes
- recv_bytes is the argument waitress passes to socket.recv() (integer),
default 8192
- send_bytes
- send_bytes is the number of bytes to send to socket.send() (integer),
default 18000. Multiples of 9000 should avoid partly-filled TCP
packets, but don’t set this larger than the TCP write buffer size. In
Linux, /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem controls the minimum, default, and
maximum sizes of TCP write buffers.
- outbuf_overflow
- A tempfile should be created if the pending output is larger than
outbuf_overflow, which is measured in bytes. The default is 1MB
(1048576). This is conservative.
- inbuf_overflow
- A tempfile should be created if the pending input is larger than
inbuf_overflow, which is measured in bytes. The default is 512K
(524288). This is conservative.
- connection_limit
- Stop creating new channels if too many are already active (integer).
Default is 100. Each channel consumes at least one file descriptor,
and, depending on the input and output body sizes, potentially up to
three, plus whatever file descriptors your application logic happens to
open. The default is conservative, but you may need to increase the
number of file descriptors available to the Waitress process on most
platforms in order to safely change it (see ulimit -a “open files”
setting). Note that this doesn’t control the maximum number of TCP
connections that can be waiting for processing; the backlog argument
controls that.
- cleanup_interval
- Minimum seconds between cleaning up inactive channels (integer), default
30. See “channel_timeout”.
- channel_timeout
- Maximum seconds to leave an inactive connection open (integer), default
120. “Inactive” is defined as “has received no data from a client
and has sent no data to a client”.
- log_socket_errors
- Boolean: turn off to not log premature client disconnect tracebacks.
Default: True.
- max_request_header_size
- maximum number of bytes of all request headers combined (integer), 256K
(262144) default)
- max_request_body_size
- maximum number of bytes in request body (integer), 1GB (1073741824)
default.
- expose_tracebacks
- Boolean: expose tracebacks of unhandled exceptions to client. Default:
False.
- asyncore_loop_timeout
- The timeout value (seconds) passed to asyncore.loop to run the
mainloop. Default: 1. (New in 0.8.3.)
- asyncore_use_poll
- Boolean: switch from using select() to poll() in asyncore.loop.
By default asyncore.loop() uses select() which has a limit of 1024
file descriptors. Select() and poll() provide basically the same
functionality, but poll() doesn’t have the file descriptors limit.
Default: False (New in 0.8.6)
- url_prefix
- String: the value used as the WSGI SCRIPT_NAME value. Setting this to
anything except the empty string will cause the WSGI SCRIPT_NAME value
to be the value passed minus any trailing slashes you add, and it will
cause the PATH_INFO of any request which is prefixed with this value to
be stripped of the prefix. Default: the empty string.