[Web-SIG] Revising environ['wsgi.input'].readline in the WSGI specification

[Robert Brewer]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web-sig-bounces+fumanchu=aminus.org at python.org [mailto:web-sig-
> bounces+fumanchu=aminus.org at python.org] On Behalf Of Ian Bicking
> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:06 AM
> To: Graham Dumpleton
> Cc: Web SIG
> Subject: Re: [Web-SIG] Revising environ['wsgi.input'].readline in the
> WSGI specification
> 
> Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> > 2008/11/16 Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com>:
> >> We need to make a revision to the WSGI spec to say that
> >> environ['wsgi.input'].readline takes an optional size argument.  It
> always
> >> does in practice (except in wsgiref.validate.validator, rendering
> that
> >> validator useless), and is required to in practice, because
everyone
> uses
> >> cgi.FieldStorage, and it passes in that argument.
> >
> > This has been brought up numerous times before. There are other
> things
> > about wsgi.input that really need to be changed as well to make it
> > more useful. When I have pushed for revised specification before I
> > could never get enough interest in it from the people that most
would
> > perceive are the ones who oversee the PEP.
> 
> Yes, this has been passed over before.  To resolve this, let's just
not
> pass it over this time?  This is a relatively small change to the WSGI
> spec, because it represents standard practice -- this change is simply
> getting the spec in line with implementations.
> 
> --
> Ian Bicking : ianb at colorstudy.com : http://blog.ianbicking.org
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