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

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

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 22:12, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 14:58, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm currently playing with a HTTP header-style format to echo headers
>> for the post tests.
>>
>> I have a new post_echo_headers.py, that emits the request headers on
>> the canonical "name: value\n" form. It gets harder if you want to
>> combine headers and other data on the same page, though...
>
> I've looked into this more closely, and it appears that only selected
> headers make it through to the CGI scripts.
>
> So, as far as I can see there's no reliable way to dump all request
> headers to the response from a CGI script, via the Python server. The
> ones that make it through are listed in the run_cgi method in Python's
> CGIHTTPServer.py. Content-Length and Content-Type are among them, so I
> thought I had it working for a while :-/
>

Is there no way to define which headers (or if all headers) should be preserved?

> Grr.

That should be alright... We may find a better way to go about things
if we write our own HTTPServer extension which does what we want
instead of relying on the CGIHTTPServer that Python defines.

I don't have enough Python kung fu to be able to pull it off yet
though so if you find other ways, I'm all ears. ;-)

Thanks for looking into this! :-D

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