Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] New http::client code errors

[Divye K. <div...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,
   Response inline.

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...>wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've just checked in revision 48 which fixes the Python CGI script
> that returns incomplete headers. I had to make it print the http
> status line (which I'm not sure is required) and add the correct line
> endings to the printed header: instead of just '\n', I made it print
> "\r\n\r\n" in the end to signify that it was the last header responded
> to.
>

I tested the python server using  LiveHTTPHeaders addon to Firefox. The
current output from the script (after your commit) is: (for
http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/requestinfo.py?q=1111)

Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii


Query string: q=1111
GET parameters: q - ['1111'] ;
POST parameters:


Clearly, the Content-type header is being shifted to the body. Please verify
this if you can. I have changed the print statement to use sys.stdout.write
to write unformatted strings, the print statement interprets the \n on
windows to be \r\n - thus causing this issue. Hopefully it should be fixed.
What was causing the CGI Test to fail initially? Was it the missing HTTP
header?


> Divye, please make sure that this is the correct way to do CGI scripts
> in Python -- I really have no idea how to do that, and I only hacked
> the script to make it not fail in just the CGI case. I haven't tried
> this in Windows yet, but I'm thinking it should be do-able.
>

Hopefully this should be fixed.


>
> Another thing: maybe we should put the startup/shutdown of the server
> in a global fixture in the test suite for localhost_test? Has anybody
> done this with Boost.Test before? That way when we start the server,
> we should be able to stop it as well at the end of the whole test.
>

That's a good idea. I just learnt about them. I'll try my hand at it.

Divye


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