[Web-SIG] The rewritten WSGI pre-PEP

[Robert Brewer]

Andrew Clover wrote:
> Robert Brewer <fumanchu at amor.org> wrote:
> 
> > I'm all for simplicity, but also for ubiquity; I'd like to see a
> > standard "uploads" entry in the environ dict.
> 
> I wouldn't! WSGI should not touch the HTTP request input stream, and 
> definitely should not attempt to parse a form submission to 
> get fields and file uploads out of it.
> 
> That's the job of the framework (or other form-reading package not 
> necessarily part of a complete framework). There are multiple 
> existing form-reading implementations with different ways of
> working.

Fair enough. That would really break chaining components, as well, now
that I think about it. Idea retracted.


Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org