Trying falcon for proxy server

README.md

Falcon trying

http://falconframework.org/

pip install falcon
pip install requests
pip install gunicorn

gunicorn -b 127.0.0.1:8001 slow:api

gunicorn proxy:api

Accessing to 127.0.0.1:8000/proxy will take 5 sec.

proxy.py

import json
import requests

import falcon
 

class ProxyResource:
    def on_get(self, req, resp):
        proxyed = requests.get('http://127.0.0.1:8001/quote')
        resp.body = proxyed.text

 
api = falcon.API()
api.add_route('/proxy', ProxyResource())

slow.py

import json
import time

import falcon

class QuoteResource:
    def on_get(self, req, resp):
        """Handles GET requests"""
        time.sleep(5)
        quote = {
            'quote': 'I\'ve always been more interested in the future than in the past.',
            'author': 'Grace Hopper'
        }

        resp.body = json.dumps(quote)

 
api = falcon.API()
api.add_route('/quote', QuoteResource())