httpexceptor

WSGI middleware to handle HTTP responses using exceptions

provides a group of exception classes representing non-2xx HTTP statuses, along with a WSGI middleware to turn the exceptions into proper HTTP headers

originally extracted from TiddlyWeb

source repository: https://github.com/tiddlyweb/httpexceptor

Usage

from httpexceptor import HTTPExceptor, HTTP404

# register middleware
app = HTTPExceptor(app)

# ...

if unavailable:
    raise HTTP404('resource unavailable')