From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:52:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: handle missing QUERY_STRING
X-Git-Tag: v1.3~112
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c9daa8ba685f17fe2c41aafae66beee808e6fc7;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

handle missing QUERY_STRING
---

diff --git a/Lib/cgi.py b/Lib/cgi.py
index f146dc99e524..6b4f859f65bd 100755
--- a/Lib/cgi.py
+++ b/Lib/cgi.py
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 #!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+# XXX TODO
+# - proper doc strings instead of this rambling dialogue style
+# - more utilities, e.g.
+#   - print_header(type="test/html", blankline=1) -- print MIME header
+#   - utility to format a nice error message in HTML
+#   - utility to format a Location: ... response, including HTML
+#   - utility to catch errors and display traceback
+
 #
 # A class for wrapping the WWW Forms Common Gateway Interface (CGI) 
 # Michael McLay, NIST  mclay@eeel.nist.gov  6/14/94
@@ -47,8 +56,10 @@ def parse():
 	if environ['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST':
 		qs = sys.stdin.read(string.atoi(environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']))
 		environ['QUERY_STRING'] = qs
-	else:
+	elif environ.has_key('QUERY_STRING'):
 		qs = environ['QUERY_STRING']
+	else:
+		environ['QUERY_STRING'] = qs = ''
 	return parse_qs(qs)