[Web-SIG] Write buffering (was Re: WSGI uses)

[Ian Bicking]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> True enough.  I've not seen a problem with CGI myself, but I believe 
> some CGI-based protocols (not FastCGI, but some clones of it) buffer 
> entire requests no matter what you do.  WSGI servers or gateways that 
> can't do streaming should document that fact.  Or perhaps there should 
> be two compliance levels: WSGI Basic and WSGI Streaming.

It could just be something like a 'wsgi.streaming' key in the 
environment, no?  Gateways should be encouraged to set that to false 
until they've confirmed that streaming really works consistently.

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