Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] [python] Getting HTTP Headers

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

Hi Divye,

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Dean,
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Dean Michael Berris
> <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Right, but I'm more interested in something that can be made part of
>> the unit tests so that I can verify whether the http::client we have
>> has really sets the User-Agent header.
>
>    I've committed a change (changeset 85) that allows you to see the HTTP
> headers in the response from cgi-bin/requestinfo.py
> There are a couple of bugs in the library that put in non-existent headers
> in the response. However, it should be sufficient to test for setting of
> http headers.
>

When you say "there are a couple of bugs in the library", which
library are you referring to?

And what exactly is the bug?

> I'm thinking of refactoring the entire file to make parsing of the response
> easy.
> What would be the ideal response from the CGI script? CSV, XML or something
> else?
> Currently, the response is rather kludgy to parse.
>

Tab/space separated values work -- they can easily be parsed through
std::ostringstream's -- as well as doing a '\n' delimited lines for
pseudo-CSV.

> Comments would be helpful.

HTH

(BTW, I'll take a look at your code to see if anything breaks in cpp-netlib)

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