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

[Manlio Perillo]

Phillip J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 07:33 PM 12/17/2007 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> [...]
> 
> And it's also irrelevant: WSGI applications are composable, which means 
> that not only does the application deployer not necessarily have any 
> idea what the application does, the *author* might not know every 
> detail, either (due to using other libraries, components, and middleware).
> 

Not sure.

The configuration is part of the application.
The deployer can ignore what the application does, but can not use a 
generic server configuration.

As an example, for a WSGI gateway implementation embedded in a web 
server and with support for multiple sub interpreter, the deployer can't 
just configure the gateway so that an application is executed in a sub 
interpreter without first knowing if the application has problems with 
sub interpreters.

> This is precisely why WSGI doesn't really have any "configuration" 
> defined, because the whole idea is that it should be as "plug-and-play" 
> as possible.  Server-level configuration options are a liability to be 
> avoided, a sometimes-necessary evil.  They aren't a feature.
> 

Disagree.

First of all, I like to have configuration in one place.
The same for logging, since, as an example, a naive use of logging 
prevents logs rotation.



Manlio Perillo