[Haskell-cafe] RFC: A standardized interface between web servers and applications or frameworks (ala WSGI)

2008-04-13 Thread Johan Tibell
Good day hackers, The Python community have been successful in standardizing an interface between web server and applications or frameworks resulting in users having more control over their web stack by being able to pick frameworks independently from web servers, and vice versa. I propose we try

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: A standardized interface between web servers and applications or frameworks (ala WSGI)

2008-04-13 Thread Manlio Perillo
Johan Tibell ha scritto: Good day hackers, The Python community have been successful in standardizing an interface between web server and applications or frameworks resulting in users having more control over their web stack by being able to pick frameworks independently from web servers, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: A standardized interface between web servers and applications or frameworks (ala WSGI)

2008-04-13 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 13, 2008, at 10:21 , Manlio Perillo wrote: I'm not yet an Haskell expert, however one of the great feature of WSGI is that the environ is a Python dictionary. This means that the user can add new keys/values in it. I'm using this feature, in my WSGI implementation for Nginx (and in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: A standardized interface between web servers and applications or frameworks (ala WSGI)

2008-04-13 Thread Michaeljohn Clement
I am very interested in this work. One thing missing is support for all HTTP methods, not just those in RFC 2616. As-is, something like WebDAV cannot be implemented. That probably means requestMethod should be a (Byte)String. What about something like sendfile(2) available on some platforms?