Re: ISSUE: Expect Header Field Problem
Scott Lawrence (lawrence@agranat.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:52:39 +0000
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:
> >At least in the case of CGIs they often ignore
> >the method
> Does the server ignore them as well and just hands off the script
> regardless?
The CGI spec (either the existing 1.1 spec or the new 1.2) just makes the
method available to the program - if the program doesn't look, it doesn't.
Some of the CGI libraries make this easy to do as well - parameters are
parsed by the library from a GET query string or a POST body transparently,
for example. I've tried bouncing TRACE and OPTIONS requests off various
URLs that were obviously scripts and many respond as though the request were
a GET.
I just took a (very) quick peek at the Apache documentation for adding
modules, and found a similar API - the method is passed by the server to the
module, so the core server itself doesn't even appear to have a way to know
what methods might be handled or not. Pretty good design if you are
optimizing for flexibility.
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Scott Lawrence Consulting Engineer <lawrence@agranat.com>
Agranat Systems, Inc. Embedded Web Technology http://www.agranat.com/