[Web-SIG] WSGI in standard library

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Feb 15 14:39:03 CET 2006


On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:50:11 -0500, "Clark C. Evans" <cce at clarkevans.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:49:00PM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>| My gut feeling: Ignores many parts of the WSGI spec (sendfile, strict
>| error checking), supports unnecessary stuff for stdlib, i.e. Continue
>| support, HTTPS.
>
>HTTPS is pretty standard requirement, its a small amount of
>code for a "battery";

HTTPS is orthogonal.  Besides, how would you support it in the stdlib?  It's currently not possible to write an SSL server in Python without a third-party library.  Maybe someone would be interested in rectifying /that/? :)

Jean-Paul


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