Re: Patch: Make CGI handler obey rack spec for the greater good

[Max Cantor <max@maxcantor.net>]

On May 20, 5:10 pm, James Tucker <jftuc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 May 2010, at 14:36, Max Cantor wrote:
> > Do you feel like there's a good reason to not make the CGI handler's
> > input stream rewindable?  Every time I update rack, I have to re-patch
> > it myself, because it never works.  It seems pretty unintuitive to
> > require adding middleware just to make the CGI handler work at all.
>
> I just don't see really good reasons to buffer for the sake of buffering.

I'm not suggesting that we buffer for the sake of buffering... the CGI
handler literally does not work for me without this patch.  I don't
think I'm doing anything very idiosyncratic: Just a basic rack app
with lighttpd.  If there's some way I can reconfigure my environment
to obviate the need for this patch, I can do that, but it seems like
the handler's lack of adherence to the spec is making it break.

 - Max