On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:50:28AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> On Mon 25 Sep, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
> > Turn on tainting
>
> What would it do on a platform that does not support Tainting?
Is this a real issue? Is there a platform where tainting isn't
supported?
> > 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.
All of them. Update forthcoming.
> Will it handle multipart input? How will it
> handle multiple inputs of the same name? etc etc.
CGI.pm has solved these problems already. I don't see these as major
issues in the feature request, just the poor wording of the RFC. ;-)
> > 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 these are handled through HTTP headers. I'll leave the
syntactical sugar to the designers and implementers of this interface.
Z.
