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

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

Hi Divye,

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
> 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.
>

No rush, I can try hacking it, but I'm not confident enough touching
Python CGI code right now.

>>
>> 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.
>

I'll get on it, but it will need some C++-side unit tests. I'll write
those but I think it's going to take some time to implement the
redirect handling to prevent infinite-looping redirects. There's also
the referrer thing that needs to be defined, but I will need to read
the HTTP docs about it as well.

>>
>> 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?
>

Hmmm... Can't the CGI Server be set up to recognize a specific URI,
then be told to redirect?

>>
>> 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. :(
>

No rush, enjoy the wedding. :)

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