Re: RFC 288 (v2) First-Class CGI Support

[Adam Turoff]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:33:13AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Ziggy, are you interested in this idea enough (at all?) to stick a note
> about the 'header' function into the RFC? Or should I RFC it separately?

Adding headers() to the core language (or a similar pragma that is 
automagically invoked by cgi) would make more sense to me.  I'd be in
favor of a new RFC.  Adding it into cgi sounds like we're on the
road to spontaneously reinventing CGI.pm...

It has uses in HTTP, CGI and SMTP contexts, probably others.  Would
be nice if there were some sort of interaction with 'open http $url' as
well.   Perhaps that would be what supplies %HTTP (or %HEADERS) for
incoming headers and does trickery with print and @HEADERS...

Z.