-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Y Knight wrote:
> I think you're saying you agree with exactly the opposite of what I > meant. The server/gateway (aka apache mod_wsgi) *must not* be required > to handle RFC2047 decoding. Only the application (or a header parsing > library that the application uses) can possibly handle this properly. I don't understand why: if RFC2047 values are being passed as HTTP headers, then surely the server has enough information to decode them, and to ensure that they are re-encoded into the same encoding as all other WSGI enviornment variables (under Python 2.x). Ensuring that the enviornment variables are uniformly encoded (or decoded to unicode, in Python 3.x) seems like it *must* be the server's responsiblity: only the server can know how some values (e.g., those derived from filesystem paths, or its config file) are encoded. Moving that responsibility to the application just means that it won't be met, because the application won't have enough information to do the job. > That's why I think it should not be mentioned at all in the WSGI > requirements for the server. > > Furthermore, although they certainly can if they want, I'd recommend > that no applications actually bother with doing such decoding, since > RFC2047 words in http headers are essentially never used. In that case, it would be moot whether the server or the application does (not) do the decoding. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ1QTk+gerLs4ltQ4RApDgAJ4olI0e3Jh1diP9P6se5RR3mfFFIACaA05t n8UK1XWG2ibMTiqXEeGr6mw= =JNXk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
