GlossaryΒΆ
- asyncio
The library for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, multiplexing I/O access over sockets and other resources, running network clients and servers, and other related primitives.
Reference implementation of PEP 3156
- callable
- Any object that can be called. Use
callable()to check that. - chardet
The Universal Character Encoding Detector
- cchardet
cChardet is high speed universal character encoding detector - binding to charsetdetect.
- keep-alive
A technique for communicating between HTTP client and server when connection is not closed after sending response but kept open for sending next request through the same socket.
It makes communication faster by getting rid of connection establishment for every request.
- resource
A concept reflects the HTTP path, every resource corresponds to URI.
May have an unique name.
Contains route‘s for different HTTP methods.
- route
- A part of resource, resource’s path coupled with HTTP method.
- web-handler
- An endpoint that returns HTTP response.
- websocket
- A protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection. The WebSocket protocol was standardized by the IETF as RFC 6455
