On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 04:15:06PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote: | At 03:36 PM 1/23/2006 -0500, Stephan Richter wrote: | > Specify a new environment variable called 'wsgi.user' (or something | > similar) that is a mutable and can be written several times. Only | > the last write (before the output is sent) is important. By default | > the variable is set to ``None`` for not set.
Why not ``wsgi.context`` or something like that which defaults to an empty dictionary. Then you can put what ever you want in it; ``wsgi.user`` just seems to be a bit too specific. | I'd suggest a callable under 'wsgi.log_username', that takes one | argument. I think this is way too specific; it doesn't address the general problem: how do you pass information back up the middleware stack. | It should be specified whether it requires ASCII or Unicode. Why cannot it just accept a Python string? You can always check if it is Unicode or not. Best, Clark _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
