I remember having a conversation with Jim at some point where he proposed a strategy for requests that could potentially take a long time to finish. If I recall correctly, he proposed having a separate ZODB connection pool. One thing that is problematic today is serving large files from the ZODB (ignoring the upcoming blob support). a) You can't return an iterator that reads from the ZODB, because by the time the iterator is consumed the connection has already been closed. I believe the iterator is not consumed in the same thread, which can cause yet more issues. b) If you dump the data to a temp file and return that as a file iterator, it can potentially take twice the time. c) If you use RESPONSE.write() you can break other applications. ExternalEditor comes to mind. d) If you just return the file as a string you can potentially run out of memory if the file is too big. I would like to be able to return an iterator that can read from the ZODB. That would probably benefit the WSGI integration as well. Anyone has ideas about how to solve this? -- Sidnei da Silva Enfold Systems http://enfoldsystems.com Fax +1 832 201 8856 Office +1 713 942 2377 Ext 214