[Catalog-sig] Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Nov 11)

[Thomas Heller]

Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:41:38PM +0100, Thomas Heller wrote:
> >...
> > I have a re-implementation of PEP 243 without using non-standard HTTP headers,
> > you can find a description in one of the recent posts to catalog-sig.
> 
> Ah. Good. It would be nice if information about that got back into the PEP.
> 

So someone has to propose a patch for the PEP, or takeover ownership, or...

> To be honest, I'm not going to jump right in and start using the code or
> anything like that. I'm just making a little contribution here based on my
> experience with and knowledge of HTTP.
> 
> > Actually without using any HTTP headers at all in the client code...
> > 
> > How would you set standard HTTP headers in a CGI script?
> > Or does the server only add them if they are not found in the
> > CGI output?
> 
> The server will set any of standard headers which are appropriate (possibly
> overriding any the CGI sets), but some web servers will provide a way to
> avoid adding any header. In Apache, if the script starts with "nph-" or

Ah. I remember something about non-parsed-headers. Right?

> somesuch, then Apache will just stream the CGI output right into the socket.
> The CGI is then responsible for getting everything right.
> 
Thanks,

Thomas