[Web-SIG] HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE and HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH

[Manlio Perillo]

Ian Bicking ha scritto:
> Manlio Perillo wrote:
> [...]
>> P.S.: I'm reading the cgi module and it only uses argv[1]:
>>       if sys.argv[1:]:
>>           qs = sys.argv[1]
>>
>>       I'm not sure to understand.
>>
>>       Moreover in mod_wsgi for nginx, I call PySys_SetArgv, so the WSGI
>>       application sees the command line options passed to nginx.
> 
> I don't know *why* cgi does this, but as you can imagine it's weird and 
> unhelpful when it does.  


CGI says:
Scripts SHOULD check to see if the QUERY_STRING value contains an 
unencoded "=" character, and SHOULD NOT use the command line arguments 
if it does.

So a CGI script *can* use the command line arguments even if 
QUERY_STRING is in environment (this seems to be really a mess).

What I don't understand is why the cgi module just use argv[1] instead 
of all the command line arguments.

 > [...]



Manlio Perillo