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

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