Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-30 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 16:39:04 -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: >I repeat: > >> >All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm should remain, >> >but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6. > ^^^ >:-) > >The proposed 'use cgi;' pragma is concerned with gluing Perl into a cgi

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-26 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:04:50AM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 07:50:28AM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote: > > On Mon 25 Sep, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > > Turn on tainting > > > > What would it do on a platform that does not support Tainting? > > Is this a real issue? I

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-26 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 04:41:21AM -0400, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > > > > > Robust input parsing: yes. > > > > > > > > > General purpose output formatting: no, [...] > > > > > > > > > Rudimentary HTTP header emission: probably. > > So this is the definition of first-class? Have you read the RFC

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-26 Thread Alan Gutierrez
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, iain truskett wrote: > * Adam Turoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [26 Sep 2000 17:15]: > > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 05:02:02PM +1100, iain truskett wrote: > > > Is there much point having a lightweight CGI module? If you say 'I want > > > it to load quickly', I say 'get mod_perl'. Agr

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Uri" == Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Uri> on the geek cruise, lincoln told me he had almost completed a total Uri> rewrite of CGI.pm. i have not heard anything about it since then. we Uri> should find out what he has done and possibly integrate it into perl6. CGI 3.01 is in the

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread Dave Storrs
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote: > > Offer simple functions to set HTTP headers (e.g. content type, result codes) > How about %HTTP, which is just flushed on the first line of output? >use cgi; >$HTTP{'Content-type'} = 'text/html'; >print "Hello!"; # flushes %HTTP first

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread Richard Proctor
On Mon 25 Sep, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > This and other RFCs are available on the web at > http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ > > =head1 TITLE > > First-Class CGI Support > > Maintainer: Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To make CGI programming easier, this option/pragma should: > > Turn on ta

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread Uri Guttman
> "PRL" == Perl6 RFC Librarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PRL> All of the other features offered by Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm PRL> should remain, but should not be deeply integrated into Perl6. PRL> Write a very small cgi.pm module that does as little as possible, PRL> probably based o

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread tadmc
> =head1 TITLE > > First-Class CGI Support > Perl6 should be *easier* to write CGI programs than Perl5. One way to > accomplish this is to add a C<-cgi> option to Perl, so that all of the > mechanical setup is done automatically. That setup could also be done > through a C pragma. > > To ma

Re: RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-25 Thread Hildo Biersma
Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > > =head1 ABSTRACT > > Perl is frequently used in CGI environments. It should be as easy to write > CGI programs with perl as it is to write commandline text filters. > > =head1 DESCRIPTION > > Tom Christiansen proposed this in his perl6storm message: > >

RFC 288 (v1) First-Class CGI Support

2000-09-24 Thread Perl6 RFC Librarian
This and other RFCs are available on the web at http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ =head1 TITLE First-Class CGI Support =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24 Sep 2000 Mailing List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Number: 288 Version: 1 Status: Developing =head1 ABSTRACT P