I am not sure whether Ronacher realizes it, but this is exactly the motivation behind Pump [1], an HTTP abstraction that takes a different approach than WSGI.

I am not sure whether Ronacher realizes it, but this is exactly the motivation behind Pump [1], an HTTP abstraction that takes a different approach than WSGI. It was criticized a lot by HN [2] and by Ronacher himself [3] but I’m glad that he understands my point of view now. [1] http://adeel.github.com/pump/manual.html http://adeel.github.com/pump/manual.html [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810373 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810373 [3] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/27/the-pluggable-pipedream/ http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2011/7/27/the-pluggable-pipedream/