Re: Simple Proposal for setting HTTP headers

On Friday, July 19, 2013 at 10:22 AM, James Graham wrote:
> On 2013-07-18 23:44, Tobie Langel wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Brad Hill wrote:
> > > OK. In an off-list chat there was a suggestion of possibly 
> > > deprecating PHP, so just wanted to be sure...
> > 
> > So there are two different questions here. The first is whether or
> > not server side capabilities will be provided if necessary. The answer
> > to that one is obviously yes.
> > 
> > The second question is which programming languages will be available,
> > and that one is a tad more complex.
> 
> It really isn't :) The only language that is supported by all the 
> relevant browser vendors is Python, so we need a system that allows us 
> to customise responses fully (headers, content, timing, etc.) and which 
> is fully implemented in Python.

There are requirements worth considering beyond the language browser vendors currently run on their servers.

--tobie

Received on Friday, 19 July 2013 14:45:49 UTC