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How do I send an HTML response with mod_wsgi? (Python 3.x)

Here's my sample app:

def application(environ, start_response):
    status = '200 OK'
    output = b"""
        <html>
            <head>
            </head>
            <body>
                <h1>It works!</h1>
            </body>
        </html>
    """

    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
                        ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]

    start_response(status, response_headers)

    return [output]

When I run it, I get:

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As you can see, the html is completely ignored and treated as pure text. I'm a complete beginner with mod_wsgi, so...

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Ho do I send an HTML response with mod_wsgi?

Solution

  • This has nothing to do with mod_wsgi.

    For some reason you've explicitly set the content type header to be "text/plain", so the browser will interpret it as, well, text. Don't do that: it should be "text/html".

    Note, you really shouldn't reject the frameworks. Writing applications in pure wsgi is possible, but unnecessarily complex; a framework simply abstracts away that complexity.