Can I use waitress to serve a flask + flask-socketio app?

[gonzoramos]

I have a flask server that also acts as a socketio server through flask-socketio - all served behind a nginx reverse proxy server...

Can I use waitress to serve my app in production? Any tips or help would be greatly appreciated!

-G

[stevepiercy]

https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/waitress/en/latest/

Waitress is meant to be a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance.

However if you need TLS, you currently must use another server, such as nginx, to provide that. See #86 (comment)

[mmerickel]

I suspect the answer is yes. However waitress is a threaded server and using it with long-lived connections such as long polling would be highly discouraged. Web sockets and other protocols also will not work.

[gonzoramos]

Thank you all for the feedback!