On Mon 25 Sep, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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> =head1 TITLE
>
> First-Class CGI Support
>
> Maintainer: Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To make CGI programming easier, this option/pragma should:
>
> Turn on tainting
What would it do on a platform that does not support Tainting?
> Parse the CGI context, returning CGI variables into %CGI
This is a little vague, will it parse $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}, look for
content on STDIN controlled by $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'}, Cookies, the command
line? Or all of them. Will it handle multipart input? How will it
handle multiple inputs of the same name? etc etc.
> Offer simple functions to set HTTP headers (e.g. content type, result
> codes)
Will there be access to do more - eg to control caching, cookies etc, will
it be optional?
>
> All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm should remain,
> but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6.
>
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