Mark Rees posts about an IIS server interface for WSGI. I can't test this, because I don't run IIS at all, but it would be interesting to see if my simple Quixote-WSGI adapter works under it. I don't even know how people run Quixote on Windows, to be honest; I guess SCGI should work with Apache on Windows, right?

So, I asked Mark to try it out, and it turns out that the QWIP adapter successfully runs Quixote under a slightly modified version of his ISAPI. Very cool. I hadn't thought about IIS integration being a real raison d'etre for WSGI, but there it is...

Mark also politely informed me that my wsgiServeFiles class didn't return proper status codes; I was returning int(200) rather than "200 OK". I just fixed that; the fix is available via Darcs or in a nice tarball on my Darcs page.

Python urllib2 buggishness

So John Lee ran across my old post asking about new (RFC 2965) style cookies, and answered thusly: mailman correctly uses RFC 2965 cookies, but does so unnecessarily because no one is really paying any attention to them. However, he did say that it's a bug for urllib2 to not correctly handle things that the browsers handle. The fix is to change urllib2 to handle RFC 2965 cookies by default, I guess. I sent him a concise program that demonstrated the issue.

Political diversions

Sometimes I come across things that make me really proud to be an American. Then there's the other stuff we do.

--titus