added bit for maintenance

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pypi.cgi b/pypi.cgi
index 600ad0d..22921d0 100755
--- a/pypi.cgi
+++ b/pypi.cgi
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@
 import sys, os, cgi, StringIO, traceback
 from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, DEFAULT_ERROR_MESSAGE
 
+# turn this on if you need to do server maintenance
+if 0:
+    sys.stdout.write('Status: 503 Server down for maintenance\r\n')
+    sys.stdout.write('Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n')
+    print 'The PyPI server is down for a short time for maintenance.'
+    print 'Please try to connect later.'
+
 #
 # Provide interface to CGI HTTP response handling
 #