[Web-SIG] ngx.poll extension (was Re: Are you going to convert Pylons code into Python 3000?)

[Graham Dumpleton]

On 07/03/2008, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org> wrote:
> Graham Dumpleton wrote:
>  > Anyway, WSGI 2.0 currently talks about returning a single
>  > tuple containing status, headers and iterable. What if it
>  > actually optionally allowed the response to itself be an
>  > iterable, such that you could do:
>  >
>  >   yield ('102 Processing', [], None)
>  >   ...
>  >   yield ('102 Processing', [], None)
>  >   ...
>  >   yield ('200 OK', [...], [...])
>  >
>  > I'll admit that I am not totally across what the HTTP 102
>  > status code is meant to be used for and am sort of presuming
>  > that this might make sense. Am sure though that Brian who
>  > understands this sort of level better than me will set me straight.
>
>  That idea doesn't really benefit Manlio's programs. Manlio's program is
>  trying to say "use my thread for some other processing until some
>  (external) event happens.

Okay, like some of our protocol discussions before, you possibly don't
see what I see in how what I  suggested could be used. ;-)

Anyway, I am not the one battling for this, so will not try and
explain it further. Or I'll leave it to my sleep deprived hours in the
middle of the night. :-)

Graham