I've updated this specification in response to input, mostly changing language but not the meat of the specification itself:
http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Specifications/handling_post_forms http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Specifications/handling_post_forms?action=diff One thing that occurred to me is that wsgi.input might be a better container for the data than an environ key, like: fs = getattr(environ['wsgi.input'], 'cgi_FieldStorage', None) if fs is None: # parse and replace wsgi.input... I actually have reason to want to generalize this, maybe like: def parse_form(environ): # Check for POST, CONTENT_TYPE... decoded = getattr(environ['wsgi.input'], 'decoded', None) if decoded is not None: decoded_type, decoded_value = decoded if decoded_type == 'cgi.FieldStorage': return decoded_value decoded_value = cgi.FieldStorage(...) input = FakeInput(None, 'cgi.FieldStorage', decoded_value) environ['wsgi.input'] = input return decoded_value class FakeInput(object): def __init__(self, file_body, decoded_type, decoded_value): self._body = file_body self.decoded = (decoded_type, decoded_value) def read(self, *args): if self._body is None: raise EOFError("wsgi.input has already been consumed to produce %r" % self.decoded) return self._body.read(*args) # other file methods... This allows for internal WSGI requests with bodies like text/json to totally avoid serializing and deserializing. In some cases there'd be exceptions raised (like this case), but in other cases you can lazily serialize to deal with intermediaries. I don't know why this didn't occur to me, since I've actually been doing this in WSGIRemote, but I like it more than my current proposal. If it sounds like a good idea to other people I'll drop the current proposal and create this more generalized proposal with a section on POST forms. -- Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
