Ian Bicking ha scritto: > Manlio Perillo wrote: >> Chris Withers ha scritto: >>> Manlio Perillo wrote: >>>> 2) handle the range request in the WSGI application. >>>> Its not hard as long as you do not implement multiple ranges >>>> support. >>>> >>>> If your object database supports seeks, this should be the most >>>> efficient solution. >>> This is probably what's wanted. So, if a wsgi app does its own range >>> handling, the wsgi server won't interfere? >>> >> >> Yes, it should not interfere (well, with mod_wsgi for nginx it *will* >> interfere if you enable the wsgi_allow_ranges directive). > > You should be able to detect whether interference is allowed based on > the response status, shouldn't you?
Right. > That is, if there is a range > request and the application replies 200 OK, you can change that and > apply the ranges. But if the application replies with 206 Partial > Content then the range has already been applied and the server shouldn't > do anything to it. > Thanks, I'll think about it. I have just added a wsgi_allow_ranges directive, without further processing, since I'm assuming that an user can anticipate if a WSGI application is able to process partial content and thus he can just enable or disable the directive. Manlio Perillo _______________________________________________ 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