Method error_output

Lib/wsgiref/handlers.py:393–407

WSGI mini-app to create error output By default, this just uses the 'error_status', 'error_headers', and 'error_body' attributes to generate an output page. It can be overridden in a subclass to dynamically generate diagnostics, choose an appropriate message for the

(self, environ, start_response)

        # XXX else: attempt advanced recovery techniques for HTML or text?

    def error_output(self, environ, start_response):
        """WSGI mini-app to create error output

        By default, this just uses the 'error_status', 'error_headers',
        and 'error_body' attributes to generate an output page.  It can
        be overridden in a subclass to dynamically generate diagnostics,
        choose an appropriate message for the user's preferred language, etc.

        Note, however, that it's not recommended from a security perspective to
        spit out diagnostics to any old user; ideally, you should have to do
        something special to enable diagnostic output, which is why we don't
        include any here!
        """
        start_response(self.error_status,self.error_headers[:],sys.exc_info())
        return [self.error_body]


    # Pure abstract methods; *must* be overridden in subclasses