On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Malthe Borch <mbo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The proposal that seemed to work best was to keep the environ as str >> (i.e., unicode in Python 3), and eliminate the problematic SCRIPT_NAME >> and PATH_INFO, replacing them with url-encoded values. Also I think >> everyone is okay with removing start_response. All text would be >> decoded as latin1 on Python 3 (which allows for transcoding; also most >> text is not unicode). The request and response body would remain bytes. >> > > I assume with "all text" you mean all header text, e.g. all header values. > All the things that are specified to be str, would stay str in Python 3. This includes all keys, headers, and stuff like wsgi.url_scheme. > Can we talk briefly then about wsgi.*? I think we should eliminate them and > in their place put a real request object, something very basic that has only > what's absolutely necessary to communicate the essential data from the > low-level HTTP request. > > There is no way that the environment can express an HTTP request. This was > a mistake in my view and we should rectify it either in 1.1 or 2.0. > I'm not aware of any problems with representing the request with a dictionary. Can you give examples? -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker
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