Streaming templating languages for use as WSGI body.

[Michael Ströder]

Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote:
> On 2011-01-06 11:11:27 -0800, Adam Tauno Williams said:
>> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 11:07 -0800, Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote:
>>> On 2011-01-06 10:00:39 -0800, Adam Tauno Williams said:
>>>> With HTTP/1.0 [and WSGI is HTTP/1.0 only] you have to provide a
>>>> Content-Length header - so you have to generate the entire response
>>>> at once [however you want to muddy "at once"].
>>>
>>> Both of these statements are false.
>>
>> Both these statements are true!  I suggest you consult the HTTP spec.
> 
> It's generally polite to provide direct references, either sections or
> actual links when asking someone to RTFM.  No matter, examining the
> HTTP/1.0 RFC (conveniently chopped up and HTML-ified by the w3) I find
> evidence to support your argument:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#Entity-Body

As I read section 7.2.2 (Length) the Content-length header is only required in
HTTP *requests* if the body contains data. According to the text it's not
required in HTTP *responses*.

Ciao, Michael.