RELEASED: Quixote 2.7b2

[Neil Schemenauer]

Quixote is a framework for writing Web-based applications using
Python. Its goals are flexibility and high-performance, in that
order.

A new beta release of Quixote 2 available.  This version fixes the
PTL import hooks to work with Python 2.6.  To download the file,
see <http://quixote.ca/download.html>.

  Neil


Summary of changes since v2.6
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v2.7b2
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Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 22 13:32:44 2010 -0600

    Use the StringIO module rather than cStringIO.
    
    cStringIO is gone in Python 3 and also does not handle unicode
    strings properly.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 22 13:29:46 2010 -0600

    By default, set Cache-Control in addition to the Expires header.
    
    The Expires header is sufficient for HTTP 1.0 but for HTTP 1.1 we
    must add a must-revalidate directive.  Clients and proxies are
    allowed to ignore Expires in certain cases and use stale pages (RFC
    2616 sections 13.1.5 and 14.9.4).

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Fri Jan 22 13:28:58 2010 -0600

    Disable cimport module for Python >= 2.6.
    
    The current version of the cimport module does not support relative
    imports. Disable it for now.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Sun Dec 13 14:18:45 2009 -0600

    Fix reference to compile_file function (fixes compile_dir function).


v2.7b1
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Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 7 00:42:51 2009 -0600

    Add session iterator.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 14:41:05 2008 -0600

    Don't use callable().

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 12:43:38 2008 -0600

    Use __contains__ instead of has_key.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Wed Dec 3 12:41:18 2008 -0600

    Use utf-8 as default encoding.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 28 23:00:40 2008 -0600

    Use built-in set type.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Mon Sep 7 01:30:26 2009 -0600

    Work around broken ihooks module in Python 2.6.
    
    Using the import hook is still the most convenient way of using PTL
    modules.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 12 10:57:06 2009 -0600

    Remove spurious kwargs from WidgetDict.__init__.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Tue Jun 16 09:55:31 2009 -0600

    Add options to sendmail so it can be used without a Quixote config.
    
    Also, remove broken encode() call since it can't handle Unicode properly
    as implemented.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Sun May 31 19:09:53 2009 -0600

    Add SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY.
    
    Based on a suggestion from Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu at netbsd.org>, add
    the SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE and SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY options.
    Setting them to true will cause the corresponding flag to be set
    on the session cookie.

Author: Hamish Lawson <hbl at st-andrews.ac.uk>
Date:   Mon Feb 2 10:04:04 2009 -0600

    Check for other possible values of HTTPS.
    
    Currently HTTPRequest only checks whether the HTTPS environment
    variable has a value of 'on', but other possible positive values are
    '1' (as set by mod_wsgi) and 'yes'.

Author: Neil Schemenauer <nas at arctrix.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 6 20:16:39 2009 -0600

    Avoid infinite redirect when PATH_INFO is empty.