I wrote:

 >I've just tried out the Medusa-based Quixote HTTP server (in CVS). The
 >front page of the demo gets truncated at the point below and the browser
 >seems to get stuck waiting for the end of the response; the other (shorter)
 >pages in the demo work fine though.

Andrew Kuchling replied:

>Curious. This is likely to be a Medusa bug, as the Quixote HTTP server
>doesn't really implement any of the HTTP protocol -- it simply fills out
>Medusa's HTTP request object and returns it -- so you could try running
>other Medusa HTTP demos and see if they also fail. Perhaps it's something
>simple, like a missing flush() or close() somewhere.

I tried the demo Medusa HTTP server. Static pages seem to be fine, but some
browsers didn't get a complete response for the /status page. I've mailed a
note to medusa-dev@mail.python.org.


Hamish