User Guide

• Introduction
  • How is Falcon different?
  • Features
  • About Apache 2.0
  • Falcon License
• Installation
  • PyPy
  • CPython
  • Dependencies
  • WSGI Server
  • Source Code
• Quickstart
  • Learning by Example
  • More Features
• Tutorial
  • First Steps
  • Hosting Your App
  • Creating Resources
  • Testing your application
  • Request and Response Objects
  • Refactoring for testability
  • Functional tests
  • Serving Images
  • Introducing Hooks
  • Error Handling
  • What Now?
• FAQ
  • Why doesn’t Falcon come with batteries included?
  • How do I use WSGI middleware with Falcon?
  • How do I authenticate requests?
  • Why doesn’t Falcon create a new Resource instance for every request?
  • Is Falcon thread-safe?
  • How do I implement both POSTing and GETing items for the same resource?
  • How can I pass data from a hook to a responder, and between hooks?
  • Does Falcon set Content-Length or do I need to do that explicitly?
  • I’m setting a response body, but it isn’t getting returned. What’s going on?
  • My app is setting a cookie, but it isn’t being passed back in subsequent requests.
  • Why does raising an error inside a resource crash my app?
  • Why are trailing slashes trimmed from req.path?
  • Why are field names in URI templates restricted to certain characters?
  • Why is my query parameter missing from the req object?
  • How can I access POSTed form params?