aioscgi 1.0.1

An ASGI server that speaks SCGI.

What is aioscgi?

aioscgi is a container implementing the Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) to serve up asynchronous Web applications via the Simple Common Gateway Interface protocol.

What is SCGI?

SCGI is a protocol used for communication between HTTP servers and Web applications. Compared to CGI, SCGI is more efficient because it does not fork and execute a separate instance of the application for every request; instead, the application is launched ahead of time and receives multiple requests (either sequentially or concurrently) via socket connections. Compared to FastCGI, SCGI is a much simpler protocol as it uses a separate socket connection for each request, rather than including framing within a single connection to multiplex requests (a feature which is rarely used in FastCGI anyway due to the lack of per-request flow control).

See the Wikipedia and Python SCGI pages for more information.

How do I install it?

aioscgi’s releases are published on PyPI for installation through pip. You can run pip install aioscgi.

For development, the source is available at GitLab and GitHub.

How do I use it?

aioscgi installs an aioscgi executable. If your ASGI application callable is named myapp and is in a file called mypackage/mymodule.py, you might run aioscgi --unix-socket /path/to/socket mypackage.mymodule:myapp. For full details on available options, run aioscgi --help.