[posted & e-mailed] In article <e230c5e2-1d7c-4258-8cc0-d78da6304...@13g2000yql.googlegroups.com>, Mac <bob.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > >We just upgraded Python to 2.6 on some of our servers and a number of >our CGI scripts broke because the cgi module has changed the way it >handles POST requests. When the 'action' attribute was not present in >the form element on an HTML page the module behaved as if the value of >the attribute was the URL which brought the user to the page with the >form, but without the query (?x=y...) part. Now FieldStorage.getvalue >() is giving the script a list of two copies of the value for some of >the parameters (folding in the parameters from the previous request) >instead of the single string it used to return for each. I searched >this newsgroup looking for a discussion of the proposal to impose this >change of behavior, and perhaps I wasn't using the right phrases in my >search, but I didn't find anything.
Interesting. Nobody has responded, so I suggest first filing a report using bugs.python.org and then asking on python-dev (with reference to your report). -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
