Referrer key missing form os.environ dictionary?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-09-26, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> Since CGI uses stdout for the finished product, it could have used stdin for
>> the input.
>
> Haven't used CGI in years, but I thought POST data came on stdin?

Yes.  The user data is read via stdin.  The stuff passed via the
environemnt "dictionary" is meta-data (stuff from the HTTP request
headers, and stuff synthesized by the HTTP server).

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