[Web-SIG] cgi module doesn't process query string values with POST, old bug report (fwd)

[Bill Janssen]

There's an outstanding issue about how any new work would integrate
with cgi, httplib, urllib, urllib2, etc.  The current idea would be to
create a new package, web, and various modules under it (client,
server, tools, etc.), which would mainly be implemented by importing
functionality from the existing web support modules.  We could then
replace the functionality in the new modules with new code in an
incremental fashion, as necessary.

Bill

> Maybe I need to update the comment: I discussed this with Guido and
> pointed out that the code seemed rather fragile. He agreed, and said
> that one of the problems with making any changes at all to the CGI
> module is the layer-upon-layer of fixing that has been done to what
> started out as fairly simple code.