Claude Paroz added the comment: Thanks for the explanations (and history). I realize that changing the behaviour is probably not an option. As an example in a framework, we are currently discussing how we will cope with this in Django: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19468 On the Python side, it might be worth adding an admonition about PATH_INFO and non-ascii URLs on the wsgiref docs. ---------- assignee: -> docs@python components: +Documentation -Library (Lib) nosy: +docs@python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16679> _______________________________________