Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] TODO's in http_integration

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

Hi,


> See section 4.2 - Message Headers of RFC 2616 (
> >> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2388.html ).
> >> Headers can span multiple lines. This would require a change in the
> >> processing of the headers.
> >
> > I meant http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2616.html
> >

Perhaps we should have a test for that as well to make sure there's a
> bug in the client in the first place. Can you make this happen with
> the Python CGI script?
>

Yes. It can. I'll try to do it tonight. Otherwise it will have to wait for
the weekend after next as I have a wedding in the family to take care of
over the next few days.


>
> Right now the client does not have a constructor. We can make use of
> the Boost.Parameter lib to make some of the options easily defined in
> the client constructor -- like redirect, authentication information,
> proxy, etc. I'm also thinking for having an overload to each method
> that allows you to define these options in each call.
>

Good idea.


>
> If we can have the Python CGI test return a redirect, perhaps we can
> expose the bug and test it as well.
>

The python CGI cannot return a redirect response due to the way the response
headers are created in the python library code. It pre-empts a 3xx response
by sending a 200 response before calling the CGI script. As of now, we need
to find another way to do it: maybe a simple asio app that redirects a
request to a url on the python server?


>
> How's the POST handler going? :D
>

The wedding's going to push things back for me for a while, so it will be on
the hold list. :(

Divye

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