Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] PUT, POST, and DELETE support

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Divye,

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
>    It is possible for a POST request to send multiple body entities with
> multiple content types using multipart transmission (RFC 2388)
> Should we support this feature? In order to do that, we will need to analyse
> the body of the message to determine suitable boundaries.
>

That should be pretty easy to do. I'm thinking of adding the following
to support this:

  -.post(request, range<pair<string,string> >)

Where the range contains a mapping between content-type and content.
>From within, we recreate the actual request with the correct headers
and the body that contains the correct format/delimiter. Or even,
using Boost.Fusion:

  post(request, sequence)

Where sequence is a Fusion sequence of STL pairs.

> I have just checked in the code without unit tests -- maybe someone
> who knows how to deal with the Python Server (CGI perhaps) and do
> POST, PUT, and DELETE handling should take over the testing of this
> code?
>
> There is no direct support for PUT and DELETE on the Python server
> currently. I'll see how that can be implemented.
>

Oh. It might be something worth looking into. Thanks in advance.

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.