[Web-SIG] WSGI and sendfile()

[Andrew Eland]

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 10:37 AM 8/23/04 +0100, Andrew Eland wrote:
> 
> we could amend the spec to indicate that if the returned iterable has a 
 > 'fileno()' attribute, the server *may* use OS facilities to read data 
directly
 > from the descriptor, but must still call the iterable's close() 
method, rather
> than closing the file descriptor.

That sounds fine to me.

> Perhaps it should be mentioned that the server *is* allowed to buffer 
> the input stream to e.g. a temporary file, *before* invoking the 
> application.

Another solution would be to feed the request body to the application as 
  it arrives, via some callback function. It's probably not worth the 
extra complexity, as the number of applications that stream a response 
based on incremental processing of the request body will be pretty small.

   -- Andrew (http://www.andreweland.org)