[Web-SIG] Fun with WSGI -- commenting middleware.

[Ian Bicking]

Titus Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I sat down today to hack out a simple commenting system for HTML
> articles, and ended up using WSGI to implement a pipe-style solution.
> 
> You can see the results at
> 
> 	http://www.idyll.org/~t/articles.cgi/
> 
> This CGI script serves HTML files from a directory hierarchy.  Anyone
> can attach a comment to any HTML file served by the script.

Spiffy.  It would be neat to plug this into a WSGI application that 
served as a proxy (redisplaying pages fetched from another location). 
Then you could point it at the Python documentation and get that 
php.net-like commenting that people are always asking for; it would 
probably be good to make the commenting more granular, but it's 
interesting to be able to develop the different parts so separately.

Actually, I was just going to convert this silly little web-based image 
viewer I have to WSGI, and with this I could get a free commenting 
system.  Hmm...

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Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org