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

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Mon Dec 10 15:45:52 CET 2007


At 12:08 PM 12/10/2007 +0000, Chris Withers wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>What's the best way to serve large files (say detailed images or pdfs)
>from a wsgi app?
>
>Is there special support for this?

That's what the iteration part of the protocol is for (well, and a 
few other things).  If you're not serving large files, it's 
counterproductive to yield multiple values or to call write() multiple times.



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