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guile-www-2.9 (www cgi) form-data loses original order
From: |
Alan Grover |
Subject: |
guile-www-2.9 (www cgi) form-data loses original order |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:44:09 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040615) |
The (www cgi) module parses query-string/form-data parameters but loses
the order of the name/value pairs.
Module: www cgi
Version: 2.9
Specifically, it reverses the order of the names (and values when a name
appears more than once). This behavior is not documented (and thus not
guaranteed).
RFC 1866 appears to be the relevant document:
section 8.2.1: "The fields are listed [by the user agent] in the order
they appear in the document." Being able to recover this order in a cgi
program may be desirable.
I would like to see an interface that delivers the key-values in order,
including duplicates: e.g. ...?bob=1&joe=2&bob=3 should give us
something like ((bob 1) (joe 2) (bob 3)).
I'm working on a suggested change to (www cgi) that addresses this and
tolerates names without "=". It should be available within the next 2 days.
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Alan Grover
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