[Web-SIG] Python 3.0 and WSGI 1.0.

[Robert Brewer]

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Alan Kennedy <alan at xhaus.com> wrote:
> > [Bill]
> > > I think the controlling reference here is RFC 3875.
> >
> > I think the controlling references are RFC 2616, RFC 2396
> > and RFC 3987.
> 
> I see what you're saying, but it's darn near impossible, as a
practical
> matter, to get any guidance on encoding matters from those.
> 
> The question is where those names come from, and they come from CGI,
> and that is (practically speaking) defined these days by RFC 3875,
> as much as anything.

If so, then PEP 333 really should be updated to point at a version of
the CGI "spec" that doesn't reference e.g. RFC 1808 for URI's. As it is,
one could easily come to the conclusion that, for example, path
parameters like /path;a=3 aren't supported (because the CGI draft that
PEP 333 mentions disallows them). I'd be much happier referring to 3875,
and even happier diverging from strict compliance to what was always a
shaky spec.


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org