[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[Massimo Di Pierro]

Thanks Graham. I had missed it.

Massimo

On Sep 21, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote:

> 2009/9/22 Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>:
>> Reference?
>
> See:
>
>  http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/09/roadmap-for-python-wsgi-specification.html
>
> Anyone else jumping in on this conversation with their own opinions
> and who has not read it, should perhaps at least read that. Also read
> some of the earlier posts in the numerous discussions this spawned at:
>
>  http://groups.google.com/group/python-web-sig?lnk=
>
> as the current thinking isn't exactly what I blogged about and has
> shifted a bit as the discussion has progressed.
>
> Graham
>
>> On 22/09/2009, at 12:07 PM, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>>
>>> 2009/9/22 Mark Nottingham <mnot at mnot.net>:
>>>>
>>>> Most things is not the Web. How will you handle serving images  
>>>> through
>>>> WSGI?
>>>> Compressed content?  PDFs?
>>>
>>> You are perhaps misunderstanding something. A WSGI application still
>>> should return bytes.
>>>
>>> The whole concept of any sort of fallback to allow unicode data to  
>>> be
>>> returned for response content was purely so the canonical hello  
>>> world
>>> application as per Python 2.X could still be used on Python 3.X.
>>>
>>> So, we aren't saying that the only thing WSGI applications can  
>>> return
>>> is unicode strings for response content.
>>>
>>> Have you read my original blog post that triggered all this  
>>> discussion
>>> this time around?
>>>
>>> Graham
>>>
>>>> On 22/09/2009, at 1:30 AM, René Dudfield wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> here is a summary:
>>>>>  Apart from python3 compatibility(which should be good enough
>>>>> reason), utf-8 is what's used in http a lot these days.  Most  
>>>>> things
>>>>> layered on top of wsgi are using utf-8 (django etc), and lots of  
>>>>> web
>>>>> clients are using utf-8 (firefox etc).
>>>>>
>>>>> Why not move to unicode?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/
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