Re: [Zopexmlmethods-devel] Override variable definitions via query string?

[Brent M H. <br...@ri...>]

Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>> kw.update(REQUEST.form)
> 
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think REQUEST.form is quite 
> enough because it only contains form values. We'd need at least 
> REQUEST.other, but looking at the (quite ugly) code of HTTPRequest, I'd 
> say:
> form
> cookies
> environ
> other

I think that might be overkill.  Just because something appears in 
REQUEST doesn't make it an automatic candidate for stylesheet 
parameters.  There is a definite use case for REQUEST.form and I could 
probably make one for REQUEST.cookies.  But the others strike me as 
unnecessary and even unwanted, since neither the user nor the stylesheet 
creator has direct control over them.

-- Brent

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