[Web-SIG] [extension] x-wsgiorg.flush

[Manlio Perillo]

Phillip J. Eby ha scritto:
> At 04:10 PM 10/4/2007 +0200, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>> Graham Dumpleton ha scritto:
>> > [...]
>> >> The idea was to allow an application to change its mind about the
>> >> headers until it had committed to writing data.  That is, to allow
>> >> the application to do error handling for as long as possible before
>> >> the server has to do it.
>> >
>> > But once you have called start_response() you cant call it a second
>> > time to change the values so how could the application change its
>> > mind?
>>
>> In my implementation of WSGI for nginx, start_response setups the
>> headers on the request object, but calls ngx_http_send_header only when
>> the first not empty string is yielded.
>>
>> This means that if an error occurs, the "old" headers are kept in the
>> response (and sent to the client); nginx will simply change the status
>> code to '500 INTERNAL ERROR'.
> 
> It's not clear to me from this statement whether you're supporting the 
> exc_info argument as described here:
> 

No, since the current nginx mod_wsgi implementation, as I have already 
written, only supports the WSGI 2.0 draft.




Regards  Manlio Perillo