How do people deal with controller functions that take a long time? (waiting for a subprocess or connection to another host, for example)
It seems that while a thread is busy, anyone associated with the thread can't use the application. I can see the benefit of this (one user can't consume many threads) but I also need the application to be responsive while a long-running request is being handled. In the past, I've handed requests off to another server (written on Twisted) and had javascript poll for status, but this is a bit laborious. Todd
