[Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

[Henry Precheur]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:15:06PM +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote:
> There is something that I don't understand.
> 
> Some HTTP headers, like Accept-Language, contains data described as
> `token`, where:
> 
> token          = 1*<any CHAR except CTLs or separators>
> 
> So a token, IMHO, is an opaque string, and it SHOULD not decoded.
> In Python 3.x it SHOULD be a byte string.

I think this is more an issue that frameworks should deal with. By
decoding every headers value to latin-1:

* It keeps WSGI simple. Simple is good.

* WSGI sticks to what RFC 2616 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1)
  says. WSGI is about HTTP, but that doesn't necessarily includes all
  other standards extending HTTP.

* It's possible to convert latin-1 strings to bytes without losing data.

-- 
  Henry Prêcheur