[Web-SIG] CGI in PEP 444

[Graham Dumpleton]

On 5 January 2011 07:04, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:
> Back to the subject of this thread: A simple CGI server is useful because it's simple enough that you can include it in the spec, to demonstrate how to handle various bits of WSGI. And anyone writing a webserver understands CGI, and can understand that. A complete HTTP implementation would not be simple enough to write into the spec.

+1

And this is the crux of the issue. It doesn't matter whether people
use CGI or not, CGI provides a good basis for showing the mechanics of
how a WSGI server/adapter should process stuff. If not that, what are
you going to do, try and use pseudo code, include a much larger socket
based web server solution?

Graham