2009/11/24 Henry Precheur <he...@precheur.org>: > (See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-5) > > The request body, the request method (GET, POST, ...), the request URL, > the HTTP version are all in `environ`.
That reference does not mention the environment. It's not an official term. > If you really want to separate the headers from the rest you would put > another dictionary containing the headers inside `environ`. Instead WSGI > puts the headers prefixed with HTTP_ in `environ`, because that's what > CGI is doing. It might not be 100% clean, or logic, but it's SIMPLER, > there's no need to deal with nested dictionaries or other more complex > structure, and it's extensible. I don't mind those. CGI does it too, like you say. > namedtuple is Python 2.6+: WSGI can't use it. WSGI must work w/ older > versions of Python. It was meant as illustration, but sure. \malthe _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
