#33699: Read ASGI request body from asyncio queue on-demand
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Reporter: Noxx | Owner: noneNote
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: HTTP handling | Version: dev
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: ASGI, async | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Klaas van Schelven):
I have the feeling I'm missing something here but I really don't see it.
What does "disconnect handling" mean in this context? Disconnect handling
by the ASGI server or by the ASGI application?
From my perspective as an application developer, there's not much to
_handle_ I think? I just want to _trigger_ a disconnect. I fail to see why
this could not simply be done by letting go of the constraint that the
request body must be consumed before sending a response. i.e. for this
particular issue I don't think changing the type of `body` to a file
descriptor is actually required.
Responding to a quote in the mentioned thread:
> The concerns with consuming the body (potentially unnecessarily, but
then why send it?)
Because it's not always up to the client to determine what should be
consumed by the server. Enforcement of quota / max message sizes is my
personal use-case.
Another use-case (not concerning disconnects) is to reduce latency for big
uploads, because processing (and possibly even sending back the result)
can start earlier.
But my main point would be: given ASGI's stated goals, it's _very
surprising_ that it's not possible to implement (for http) a streaming
echo server.
Anyway, this is moving into "someone is wrong on the internet" territory
for me; I ran into this while evaluating the streaming capacities of
various server setups and have not tied myself to an ASGI setup yet, so
for me the take-away is simply that ASGI is not a good fit for my use-
case.
Background regarding the HTTP/1.1 spec, and the idea of send-before-full-
receive (outside of the ASGI context):
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14250991/is-it-acceptable-for-a
-server-to-send-a-http-response-before-the-entire-request
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