-> >-> I'd encourage the other 'server script' maintainers to use a similar
-> >-> tactic; Quixote apps should always have access to the whole request,
-> >IMO, -> not just selected headers; and this should be the case regardless
-> >of what -> Web server is being used.
-> >
-> >Err... do you mean "Quixote apps should always have access to the whole
-> >request, formatted by the de facto rules that Apache uses for CGI"?
-> >
-> >To my knowledge, there's no other standard for what headers should be
-> >created, so I'm curious to find out if there are any ;).
->
-> I'd reword that to "...formatted according to the CGI/1.1 spec." There is
-> such a beast, still in Internet Draft (!), see http://www.w3.org/CGI/ .
-> Bear in mind that I am not a Apache/CGI consumer, so I'm not familiar with
-> Apache's CGI rules and how they may differ.

I didn't know that there was a formal spec -- cool!

I've been bitten by this with AOLserver.  PyWX, our Python embedding for
this great Web server, needs to have a CGI emulation mode, but it's never
been entirely clear exactly what headers various applications need.  I've
spent a great deal of time in the past figuring out exactly what Webware
and Quixote both need, since those seem to be the two most popular Python
Web application systems.

thanks for the ref!

cheers,
--titus