[Web-SIG] WSGI: allowing short reads

[Robert Collins]

On 26 September 2014 18:16, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
>> I don't think we need read1 (perhaps I'm wrong) but making read
>> consistent with the io library would be good, I think - particularly
>> for websockets.
>
> I would agree, but for websockets, I'd really want a per-frame
> generator or something. I've always used JSON messages that fit in a
> WebSockets frame, so I don't actually need to look for message/object
> boundaries.

Ok, we can drill down into that more deeply in the websocket context.
I guess a bunch of context around here will depend on whether
websockets is implemented as a primitive or if we want to make it
possible to implement websockets on top of a more basic primitive.
mod_wsgi (and other containers) may not be able to expose a raw
'socket' at any point, so I'd lean towards exposing a structured
thing.

-Rob
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