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[Jorge Williams <jorge.williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 3, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Eric Day wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
>
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 05:34:59PM -0500, Jorge Williams wrote:
>>   I'm not that familiar with WSGI but it looks like you're proposing
>>   something similar to what I have above.
>>
>>   WSGI may indeed be the solution, but I would say, what should be split
>>   into  a separate app should be determined by a specific deployment. We
>>   should have the capability to split things as needed as an inherit
>>    feature of the architecture.
>
> The diagram you had is exactly what WSGI provides. It's a way to
> layer differnet steps in the request chain, and we can easily process
> them from method to method, or push out across a HTTP transport as
> needed. Up until this point, whenever you mentioned a 'proxy' I was
> assuming you meant a full HTTP proxy and not just a method call. So
> I think we're all on the same page now. :)

Awesome!

Can you configure WSGI  to split things up as needed for a particular deployment(?)

-jOrGe W.