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9th June 2007 - Link Blog

Wait For It (via) Neat WSGI middleware from Ian Bicking that launches a thread for every incoming request and watches for slow responses; if something is taking too long it returns a “please wait” page to the user and polls for completion.

Posted 9th June 2007 at 4:53 pm

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