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PEP: 222
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Title: Web Library Enhancements
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Version: $Revision$
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Author: akuchlin@mems-exchange.org (Andrew Kuchling)
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Status: Deferred
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Type: Standards Track
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Python-Version: 2.1
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Created: 18-Aug-2000
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Post-History: 22-Dec-2000
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Abstract
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This PEP proposes a set of enhancements to the CGI development
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facilities in the Python standard library. Enhancements might be
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new features, new modules for tasks such as cookie support, or
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removal of obsolete code.
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The original intent was to make improvements to Python 2.1.
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However, there seemed little interest from the Python community,
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and time was lacking, so this PEP has been deferred to some future
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Python release.
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Open Issues
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This section lists changes that have been suggested, but about
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which no firm decision has yet been made. In the final version of
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this PEP, this section should be empty, as all the changes should
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be classified as accepted or rejected.
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cgi.py: We should not be told to create our own subclass just so
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we can handle file uploads. As a practical matter, I have yet to
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find the time to do this right, so I end up reading cgi.py's temp
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file into, at best, another file. Some of our legacy code actually
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reads it into a second temp file, then into a final destination!
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And even if we did, that would mean creating yet another object
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with its __init__ call and associated overhead.
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cgi.py: Currently, query data with no `=' are ignored. Even if
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keep_blank_values is set, queries like `...?value=&...' are
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returned with blank values but queries like `...?value&...' are
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completely lost. It would be great if such data were made
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available through the FieldStorage interface, either as entries
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with None as values, or in a separate list.
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Utility function: build a query string from a list of 2-tuples
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Dictionary-related utility classes: NoKeyErrors (returns an empty
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string, never a KeyError), PartialStringSubstitution (returns
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the original key string, never a KeyError)
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New Modules
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This section lists details about entire new packages or modules
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that should be added to the Python standard library.
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* fcgi.py : A new module adding support for the FastCGI protocol.
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Robin Dunn's code needs to be ported to Windows, though.
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Major Changes to Existing Modules
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This section lists details of major changes to existing modules,
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whether in implementation or in interface. The changes in this
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section therefore carry greater degrees of risk, either in
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introducing bugs or a backward incompatibility.
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The cgi.py module would be deprecated. (XXX A new module or
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package name hasn't been chosen yet: 'web'? 'cgilib'?)
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Minor Changes to Existing Modules
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This section lists details of minor changes to existing modules.
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These changes should have relatively small implementations, and
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have little risk of introducing incompatibilities with previous
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versions.
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Rejected Changes
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The changes listed in this section were proposed for Python 2.1,
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but were rejected as unsuitable. For each rejected change, a
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rationale is given describing why the change was deemed
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inappropriate.
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* An HTML generation module is not part of this PEP. Several such
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modules exist, ranging from HTMLgen's purely programming
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interface to ASP-inspired simple templating to DTML's complex
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templating. There's no indication of which templating module to
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enshrine in the standard library, and that probably means that
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no module should be so chosen.
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* cgi.py: Allowing a combination of query data and POST data.
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This doesn't seem to be standard at all, and therefore is
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dubious practice.
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Proposed Interface
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XXX open issues: naming convention (studlycaps or
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underline-separated?); need to look at the cgi.parse*() functions
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and see if they can be simplified, too.
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Parsing functions: carry over most of the parse* functions from
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cgi.py
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# The Response class borrows most of its methods from Zope's
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# HTTPResponse class.
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class Response:
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"""
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Attributes:
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status: HTTP status code to return
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headers: dictionary of response headers
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body: string containing the body of the HTTP response
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"""
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def __init__(self, status=200, headers={}, body=""):
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pass
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def setStatus(self, status, reason=None):
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"Set the numeric HTTP response code"
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pass
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def setHeader(self, name, value):
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"Set an HTTP header"
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pass
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def setBody(self, body):
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"Set the body of the response"
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pass
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def setCookie(self, name, value,
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path = '/',
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comment = None,
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domain = None,
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max-age = None,
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expires = None,
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secure = 0
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):
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"Set a cookie"
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pass
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def expireCookie(self, name):
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"Remove a cookie from the user"
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pass
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def redirect(self, url):
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"Redirect the browser to another URL"
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pass
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def __str__(self):
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"Convert entire response to a string"
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pass
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def dump(self):
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"Return a string representation useful for debugging"
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pass
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# XXX methods for specific classes of error:serverError,
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# badRequest, etc.?
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class Request:
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"""
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Attributes:
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XXX should these be dictionaries, or dictionary-like objects?
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.headers : dictionary containing HTTP headers
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.cookies : dictionary of cookies
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.fields : data from the form
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.env : environment dictionary
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"""
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def __init__(self, environ=os.environ, stdin=sys.stdin,
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keep_blank_values=1, strict_parsing=0):
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"""Initialize the request object, using the provided environment
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and standard input."""
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pass
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# Should people just use the dictionaries directly?
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def getHeader(self, name, default=None):
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pass
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def getCookie(self, name, default=None):
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pass
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def getField(self, name, default=None):
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"Return field's value as a string (even if it's an uploaded file)"
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pass
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def getUploadedFile(self, name):
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"""Returns a file object that can be read to obtain the contents
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of an uploaded file. XXX should this report an error if the
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field isn't actually an uploaded file? Or should it wrap
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a StringIO around simple fields for consistency?
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"""
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def getURL(self, n=0, query_string=0):
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"""Return the URL of the current request, chopping off 'n' path
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components from the right. Eg. if the URL is
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"http://foo.com/bar/baz/quux", n=2 would return
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"http://foo.com/bar". Does not include the query string (if
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any)
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"""
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def getBaseURL(self, n=0):
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"""Return the base URL of the current request, adding 'n' path
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components to the end to recreate more of the whole URL.
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Eg. if the request URL is
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"http://foo.com/q/bar/baz/qux", n=0 would return
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"http://foo.com/", and n=2 "http://foo.com/q/bar".
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Returned URL does not include the query string, if any.
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"""
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def dump(self):
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"String representation suitable for debugging output"
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pass
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# Possibilities? I don't know if these are worth doing in the
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# basic objects.
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def getBrowser(self):
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"Returns Mozilla/IE/Lynx/Opera/whatever"
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def isSecure(self):
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"Return true if this is an SSLified request"
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# Module-level function
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def wrapper(func, logfile=sys.stderr):
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"""
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Calls the function 'func', passing it the arguments
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(request, response, logfile). Exceptions are trapped and
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sent to the file 'logfile'.
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"""
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# This wrapper will detect if it's being called from the command-line,
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# and if so, it will run in a debugging mode; name=value pairs
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# can be entered on standard input to set field values.
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# (XXX how to do file uploads in this syntax?)
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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Local Variables:
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mode: indented-text
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indent-tabs-mode: nil
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