[Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org ___

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

Jim Fulton wrote: > The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require the read size argument (they don't give a TypeError), but they block without it, or if you read past CONTENT_LENGTH. So it should probably be requi

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

Ian Bicking wrote: > Jim Fulton wrote: > >> The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. > > > My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require > the read size argument (they don't give a TypeError), but they block > without it, or if you read past CONTENT_LENG

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

At 10:20 AM 12/21/2005 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: >Ian Bicking wrote: > > Jim Fulton wrote: > > > >> The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. > > > > > > My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require > > the read size argument (they don't give a TypeError), but

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

Phillip J. Eby wrote: > At 10:20 AM 12/21/2005 -0500, Jim Fulton wrote: > >> Ian Bicking wrote: >> > Jim Fulton wrote: >> > >> >> The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. >> > >> > >> > My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require >> > the read size argumen

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

On Dec 21, 2005, at 10:20 AM, Jim Fulton wrote: > Ian Bicking wrote: > >> Jim Fulton wrote: >> >> >>> The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. >>> >> >> >> My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require >> the read size argument (they don't give a TypeError)

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

James Y Knight wrote: The PEP is unclear on this and should be clarified, IMO. >>> >>> >>> My experience in using implementations is many servers do not require >>> the read size argument (they don't give a TypeError), but they block >>> without it, or if you read past CONTENT_LENGTH. So

Re: [Web-SIG] Is the size argument to the input-stream read method optional?

On Dec 28, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: >> Surely that's a bug in the server, not the spec? Indeterminate >> length uploads (with transfer-encoding chunked) are allowed by >> HTTP, after all. The CGI spec explicitly rejects such requests, >> but WSGI doesn't seem to. >> > > But wh