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cleaning up wording on wsgi servers why section
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‎feeds/all.atom.xml‎

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‎source/content/pages/07-wsgi-servers/0701-wsgi-servers.markdown‎

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## Why are WSGI servers necessary?
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A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to execute Python
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code. In the late 1990s, a developer named Grisha Trubetskoy
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A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to run Python
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applications. In the late 1990s, a developer named Grisha Trubetskoy
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[came up with an Apache module called mod\_python](http://grisha.org/blog/2013/10/25/mod-python-the-long-story/)
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to execute Python code. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s,
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Apache configured with mod\_python ran most of the Python web applications
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on the web.
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to execute arbitrary Python code. For several years in the late 1990s
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and early 2000s, Apache configured with mod\_python ran most Python web
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applications.
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However, mod\_python wasn't a standard. It was just an implementation that
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allowed arbitrary Python code to run on a server. As mod\_python's
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However, mod\_python wasn't a actual standard. It was just an implementation
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that allowed Python code to run on a server. As mod\_python's
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development stalled and security vulnerabilities were discovered there
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was recognition by the community that a consistent way to execute Python
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‎wsgi-servers.html‎

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(WSGI) server implements the web server side of the WSGI interface for
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<h2>Why are WSGI servers necessary?</h2>
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<p>A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to execute Python
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code. In the late 1990s, a developer named Grisha Trubetskoy
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<p>A traditional web server does not understand or have any way to run Python
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applications. In the late 1990s, a developer named Grisha Trubetskoy
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<a href="http://grisha.org/blog/2013/10/25/mod-python-the-long-story/">came up with an Apache module called mod_python</a>
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to execute Python code. For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s,
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Apache configured with mod_python ran most of the Python web applications
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on the web.</p>
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<p>However, mod_python wasn't a standard. It was just an implementation that
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allowed arbitrary Python code to run on a server. As mod_python's
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to execute arbitrary Python code. For several years in the late 1990s
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and early 2000s, Apache configured with mod_python ran most Python web
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applications.</p>
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<p>However, mod_python wasn't a actual standard. It was just an implementation
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that allowed Python code to run on a server. As mod_python's
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development stalled and security vulnerabilities were discovered there
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was recognition by the community that a consistent way to execute Python
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code for web applications was needed.</p>

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