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List:       python-web-sig
Subject:    [Web-SIG] Loosening the CGI variable requirements in PEP 333
From:       pje () telecommunity ! com (Phillip J !  Eby)
Date:       2004-09-15 19:01:29
Message-ID: 5.1.1.6.0.20040915125541.0293c6e0 () mail ! telecommunity ! com
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Currently, the requirement for CGI variables reads like this:

"""``environ`` Variables
---------------------

The ``environ`` dictionary is required to contain these CGI
environment variables, as defined by the Common Gateway Interface
specification [2]_.  The following variables **must** be present, but
**may** be an empty string, if there is no more appropriate value for
them:"""

I'd like to change that last sentence to:

"""The following variables **must** be present (unless their value
would be an empty string, in which case they may be omitted):"""

This means that other parts of the spec would need to use e.g. 
'environ.get("PATH_INFO","")'.  But, I think this change will make it a 
little bit easier on servers or gateways that already have some sort of CGI 
basis or support, without substantially affecting anything else.

Comments, anyone?

(By the way, as far as I can tell, this is the very last open issue for PEP 
333, so once this one's decided, I think it's time to begin the 
finalization process.)

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