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

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

Hi Dean,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...
> wrote:

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

The python CGI library.

>
> And what exactly is the bug?


A simple get request sets the content-type header to be
application/x-www-form-urlencoded. This is an issue with the Python CGI
library. Other than this minor bug, I haven't found any major issues with
the code and I don't think any of the tests break.


>
> > 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.
>

Ok.


>
> > Comments would be helpful.
>
> HTH
>

Sure did.


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

Divye

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