[Web-SIG] Could WSGI handle Asynchronous response?

[Etienne Robillard]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:23:38 -0800 (PST)
est <electronixtar at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am writing a small 'comet'-like app using flup, something like
> this:
> 
> def myapp(environ, start_response):
>     start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/plain')])
>     return ['Flup works!\n']        <-------------Could this be part
> of response output? Could I time.sleep() for a while then write other
> outputs?
> 
> 
> if __name__ == '__main__':
>     from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
>     WSGIServer(myapp, multiplexed=True, bindAddress=('0.0.0.0',
> 8888)).run()
> 
> 
> So is WSGI really synchronous? How can I handle asynchronous outputs
> with flup/WSGI ?

maybe start by looking here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/web2/wsgi.py

Regards,
Etienne