Re: RFC 288 (v2) First-Class CGI Support

[Nathan Wiger]

Sounds good. I'll start on my 39th :-{ RFC right now... ;-)

-Nate

Adam Turoff wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > Ziggy, are you interested in this idea enough (at all?) to stick a note
> > about the 'header' function into the RFC? Or should I RFC it separately?
> 
> Adding headers() to the core language (or a similar pragma that is
> automagically invoked by cgi) would make more sense to me.  I'd be in
> favor of a new RFC.  Adding it into cgi sounds like we're on the
> road to spontaneously reinventing CGI.pm...
> 
> It has uses in HTTP, CGI and SMTP contexts, probably others.  Would
> be nice if there were some sort of interaction with 'open http $url' as
> well.   Perhaps that would be what supplies %HTTP (or %HEADERS) for
> incoming headers and does trickery with print and @HEADERS...
> 
> Z.