Network.CGI, POST and QUERY_STRING

Christopher Milton cmiltonperl at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 4 16:01:43 EDT 2004


I fogot to mention that urlEncodeVars in (Network.)HTTP.hs would be
of particular interest to Pilippa.

--- Graham Klyne <GK at ninebynine.org> wrote:
> FWIW, Bjorn Bringert has improved and big-fixed Warrick Gray's HTTP in 
> several ways, available from:
> 
>    http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d00bring/haskell-xml-rpc/http.html
> 
> I've used this with greater success than I had with the original.
> 
> Also, I've implemented an updated URI parser/processor, based on the new 
> work-in-progress URI specification, which is available at:
> 
>    http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/Intro.html#HaskellURI
>    http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/HaskellUtils/Network/
> 
> (The latter URI also contains a slightly modifed version of Bjorn's HTTP, 
> that works with my URI module.)
> 
> I am hoping/planning to contribute these to the Haskell common libraries, 
> but have been waiting for (a) the new URI spec to be ratified, and (b) me 
> having tome to make sure the small interface changes in my version of URI 
> handling won't be too problematic for others.
> 
> #g
> --
> 
> At 11:08 04/10/04 -0700, Christopher Milton wrote:
> >Have you looked at Warrick Gray's page?
> >
> >http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/warrickg/haskell/http/
> >
> >--- Philippa Cowderoy <flippa at flippac.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Christopher Milton wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are you writing a server or a client?
> > > >
> > > > Could you describe a little bit more what you are trying to do?
> > > >
> > >
> > > I'm writing a little wiki clone. When the user edits and submits an
> entry,
> > > I'd like to have them send the updated text via a form, but have the
> entry
> > > they're editing hardcoded into the form they're sent - so they send the
> > > URL "myscript?edit=<entry>" and the text for the entry via the form.
> > >
> > > I've also found use for urlEncode (which I've not bothered doing yet as
> my
> > > project's at a primitive stage so far), so it might be best just to
> expose
> > > those two from the existing code as ships with GHC?
> > >
> > > > --- Philippa Cowderoy <flippa at flippac.org> wrote:
> > > > > Would it be possible to expose urlDecode from Network.CGI, or to
> > > > > automatically parse the query string in response to a POST rather
> than
> > > > > just parsing the data on stdin?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > flippa at flippac.org
> > >
> >
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