[Web-SIG] Proposed WSGI extensions for asynchronous servers

[Ionel Maries Cristian]

> My thinking is that the server *creates* the environ dictionary, so it can
> just keep a reference to it and update it as needed.  Is middleware allowed
> to replace environ with another dict instance before passing it to the
> application?  I wasn't aware that this was allowed, but if it is, then I see
> the problem.
>
> The solution would probably be for the application to pass a mutable
> object (e.g. an empty list) to readable/writable that the server could set a
> timeout flag on.
>

How about a environ['x-wsgiorg.async'].timeout ? I do something like that in
cogen.

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