[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: I spent some time reviewing and researching the specification. It also says The server is not required to create meta-variables for all the header fields that it receives. And this in issue, open since 2010, we have issue two different set of variab

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

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[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Senthil Kumaran added the comment: Hello Maarten, > Using cgitb, I found out that the webdriver expects the environment variable > `HTTP_X_URWID_METHOD` to be set. The javascript sets the "X-Urwid-Method" > header (using XmlHttpRequest), but these are not visible by the CGI python > script.

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Maarten added the comment: The CGI examples of urwid (see http://urwid.org/manual/displaymodules.html#cgi-web-display-module-web-display) don't work on http.server because of missing meta variables. Using cgitb, I found out that the webdriver expects the environment variable `HTTP_X_URWID_M

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Glenn Linderman added the comment: That's interesting, Pierre, I hadn't really read the RFC carefully, to realize that many of the "missing" variables from Apache are HTTP headers, and that section 4.1.18 tell how to convert HTTP headers to meta variables. The code in server.py 3.6 (Sorry, I

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Pierre Quentel added the comment: The QUERY_STRING value is always set by the code at lines 1135-1137 of http.server: for k in ('QUERY_STRING', 'REMOTE_HOST', 'CONTENT_LENGTH', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'HTTP_COOKIE', 'HTTP_REFERER'): env.setdefault(k, "") The RFC for CGI

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Rémi Lapeyre added the comment: Hi Glenn, I'm not aware of a document that defines CGI better than the RFC and I don't know it enough to disgress from the published standard (even if it is not what isdone today as I don't know the current practices enough). Here is the variables defined by ng

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Glenn Linderman added the comment: Rémi Lapeyre, glad to see your interest here, as this is an old and languishing bug. I would have hoped based on my input, that had there been anyone that was maintaining the Python web server code, that they might have done a more complete analysis than I

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Rémi Lapeyre added the comment: AUTH_TYPE, CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, REMOTE_USER are present REMOTE_IDENT is not but I'm not sure it's worth adding. I can send a PR to add REMOTE_HOST and remove the condition for QUERY_STRING. Otherwise, I don't think the other environment variables shoul

[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Rémi Lapeyre added the comment: The reference given in https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/b36b0a3765bcacb4dcdbf12060e9e99711855da8/Lib/http/server.py#L1074 is not accessible anymore. I think we should replace it by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875#section-4.1 -- _

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[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

Glenn Linderman added the comment: Reading the CGI 1.1 spec, it says: The QUERY_STRING value provides the query-string part of the Script-URI. (See section 3.3). The server MUST set this variable; if the Script-URI does not include a query component, the QUERY_STRING MUST be defin

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Glenn Linderman added the comment: Took a little more time to do a little more analysis on this one. Compared a sample query via Apache on Linux vs http.server, then looked up the CGI RFC for more info: DOCUMENT_ROOT: ... GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1 HTTP_ACCEPT: text/html,application/xhtml+xm

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[issue10486] http.server doesn't set all CGI environment variables

New submission from Glenn Linderman : HTTP_HOST HTTP_PORT REQUEST_URI are variables that my CGI scripts use, but which are not available from http.server or CGIHTTPServer (until I added them). There may be more standard variables that are not set, I didn't attempt to enumerate the whole list.