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Malthe Borch wrote:
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> 2009/11/24 Ian Bicking :
>> Why does this matter?
>
> It's all convention, but the CGI interpretation was to read the HTTP
> request line by line until a blank line came and that was the
> environment. Everything after that is
2009/11/24 Henry Precheur :
> (See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5)
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> The request body, the request method (GET, POST, ...), the request URL,
> the HTTP version are all in `environ`.
That reference does not mention the environment. It's not an official term.
> If you really want
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:50:00PM +0100, Malthe Borch wrote:
> How people use or abuse software is not our concern; but the standard
> library should not itself abuse its own abstractions.
Your assumption is that `environ` == HTTP headers. That's simply NOT the
case. A request is:
- A reques
2009/11/24 Ian Bicking :
> Why does this matter?
It's all convention, but the CGI interpretation was to read the HTTP
request line by line until a blank line came and that was the
environment. Everything after that is the body.
If you want to obtain a shorter call signature – e.g. (environ,
sta
