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

[Allister L. S. <all...@gm...>]

Hi Kim,

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:

> Cool, thanks!


You're welcome :-)


> I had trouble with custom headers, though, and it looks like they're
> still hard to pull through?
>
> I'm thinking about maybe base64-encoding all of self.headers and
> putting it into an env var as-is, and then decoding it on the CGI
> side. That should do the trick...


If we look deep at the code (see $PYTHON_HOME/Lib/rfc822.py), self.headers
is simply a list.  One can simply concatenate the elements of a list (with a
really unique separator) and add it into os.environ.  Something like this in
http_test_server.py:

all_headers = ',--aUniqueSeparator--,'.join(self.headers)
os.environ['HTTP_ALL_HEADERS'] = all_headers

and in the CGI script, we can easily recover it:

list_of_all_headers =
os.environ.get('HTTP_ALL_HEADERS','').split(',--aUniqueSeparator--,')

There you have it.  I'll commit it after work -- or you could commit it
yourself ;-)

Cheers,
Allister