On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:56:55 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 5:04:24 PM UTC-4, PRACHI VAKHARIA wrote: >> >> >> The goals is learning – to see and understand the process and working >> happening in the background to make everything work – to see the web2py in >> action from inside. >> >> Currently, web2py works so well that one does not need to worry about >> things like that, which is great, but it also hides the workings which >> limits the learning using w2p of itself! >> >> So, a little compromise on speed to see the workings would be akin to >> seeing a car's engine and transmission in action on a stationary car. >> > > You might start by simply studying the source code. When an HTTP request > comes in, the starting point is a call to gluon.main.wsgibase. Start there, > and you can follow all the logic that executes in response to a request. >
You might also find it helpful to watch this video <https://colflash.cdm.depaul.edu/colflashweb/COLFlashPlayer.aspx?ID=183272>, starting at about 58:20 (a walk through the framework code showing how an HTTP request is handled). Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.