Reading the CGI spec I'm noticing some requirements it makes that aren't
done as much in WSGI.
In particular:
6.1.8. QUERY_STRING
A URL-encoded string; the part of the Script-URI. (See
section 3.2.)
QUERY_STRING = query-string
query-string = *uric
The URL syntax for a q
> Lastly it was noted to me that SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO are
> supposed to
> be decoded (in the spec it says "The syntax and semantics are
> similar to
> a decoded HTTP URL 'path' token (defined in RFC 2396 [4])"). I
> haven't
> been doing this, and the spec isn't clear on this (wsgiref do
Ian wrote:
> Reading the CGI spec I'm noticing some requirements it makes that
> aren't done as much in WSGI.
> [...]
> It's also unclear if the WSGI server is expected to normalize the
> path, specifically things like /foo/../bar -- Apache does do
> this, wsgiref does not.
The spec could definit
At 03:36 PM 12/19/2006 -0800, Jason Kirtland wrote:
>To my reading, PEP 333 implies that a server should plop the
>Request-URI into PATH_INFO, and it should store it there
>unmolested.
That's only the case if the address of the application is the root of the
server, and then only if the request U
Phillip wrote:
> At 03:36 PM 12/19/2006 -0800, Jason Kirtland wrote:
>> To my reading, PEP 333 implies that a server should plop the
>> Request-URI into PATH_INFO, and it should store it there
>> unmolested.
>
> That's only the case if the address of the application is the
> root of the server, and
At 04:50 PM 12/19/2006 -0800, Jason Kirtland wrote:
>Phillip wrote:
> > At 03:36 PM 12/19/2006 -0800, Jason Kirtland wrote:
> >> To my reading, PEP 333 implies that a server should plop the
> >> Request-URI into PATH_INFO, and it should store it there
> >> unmolested.
> >
> > That's only the case i
Phillip wrote:
> At 04:50 PM 12/19/2006 -0800, Jason Kirtland wrote:
>> What would a server do with an absolute URI vs. abs_path, if not
>> place it in PATH_INFO? Or '*', for that matter?
>
> My understanding is that an absolute URI is equivalent to issuing
> the same request with e.g. a 'Host:' h
On 12/19/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My understanding is that an absolute URI is equivalent to issuing the same
> request with e.g. a 'Host:' header, and should result in equivalent results
> in terms of environment variables.
Yes, there should be no difference between the
two
