Re: [Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

2010-09-20 Thread chris . dent
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Ian Bicking wrote: On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: I propose to write in the PEP that a middleware should provide an app attribute to get the wrapped application or middleware. It seems to be the most common name used out there.

Re: [Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

2010-09-20 Thread Robert Brewer
On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 21:52 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: I'm -0 on the server trying to guess the Content-Length header. It just doesn't seem like much of a burden to place on an application and it's easier to specify that an application must do this than it is to specify how a

Re: [Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

2010-09-20 Thread Matt Goodall
On 20 September 2010 16:19, Robert Brewer fuman...@aminus.org wrote: On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 21:52 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote: I'm -0 on the server trying to guess the Content-Length header. It just doesn't seem like much of a burden to place on an application and it's easier to

Re: [Web-SIG] PEP 444 (aka Web3)

2010-09-20 Thread Armin Ronacher
Hi, On 9/20/10 6:31 PM, Matt Goodall wrote: Servers should definitely not transform a HEAD to a GET. There are some good reasons why it currently has to. I haven't read the link in question but I had a discussion with Graham a few days ago on Skype and he outlined the issue in detail. I