[Web-SIG] serving (potentially large) files through wsgi?

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Dec 17 19:16:41 CET 2007


At 04:44 PM 12/17/2007 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>Manlio Perillo wrote:
> > 2) handle the range request in the WSGI application.
> >    Its not hard as long as you do not implement multiple ranges support.
> >
> >    If your object database supports seeks, this should be the most
> >    efficient solution.
>
>This is probably what's wanted. So, if a wsgi app does its own range
>handling, the wsgi server won't interfere?

A WSGI server that didn't recognize the response already handled the 
range would be defective, yes.



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