[Lazarus] fcl-web deleted headers?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Ludo Brands wrote:

> On 03/27/2014 10:57 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm sending a custom header I called "Filename" to a Brook CGI
>>> (which uses TRequest from fcl-web) but I can't access that header.
>>
>> To my knowledge, the CGI protocol doesn't support the use of custom
>> headers.
>>
>
> AFAIK, the CGI protocol doesn't specify anything regarding custom
> headers. It only specifies mandatory variables but leaves custom headers
> to the webserver implementation. Apache forwards most headers in
> environment variables (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/env.html).
> But, CustCgi only reads a set of known variables listed in CgiVarNames.
>
> Can you try
>
> HTTPDecode(GetEnvironmentVariable('Filename'));
>
> to get your custom header?
>
> A good practice is to start your custom headers with 'X-YourAPP-'.
> Headers starting with 'X-' are in a lot of implementations considered as
> application specific headers and not touched by transport agents.

If this is indeed the case, then I will add a GetCustomHeader to the TRequest.
TResponse has SetCustomHeader() so this is nicely symmetric.

Michael.