[Web-SIG] Form field dictionaries

[David Fraser]

Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, David Fraser wrote:
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>>The next question is, how do we handle the Get/Post/Both situation?
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>Just to clarify nomenclature -
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>POST /blah/blah.py?foo=bar
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>is a valid request. The part after ? is called "query information", this
>is defined in RFC 1808 and RFC1738.
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>CGI (which has no formal RFC, but there is Ken Coar's excellent draft)
>introduces something called "path-info", but its meaning is rather vague
>outside of cgi since it relies on a notion of a script, which isn't very
>meaningful in most non-CGI environments.
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>The data submitted in the body of the POST request is called "form data"
>and I believe is described in RFC 1867.
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>I think that query information and form data can be combined in a single
>mapping object, because if you want just query data, you can always parse
>the url directly via urlparse, and if you want only form data, you can
>read and parse it directly as a mime object.
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Great. No need to complicate things unneccessarily!

>Path-info I think should be left where it belongs - in the cgi-specific
>module.
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Yes, we shouldn't integrate cgi-specific things into a general API

David