[hunchentoot-devel] Fwd: Problem with late calls to POST-PARAMETERS

[Peter Seibel]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Leslie P.
Polzer<sky at viridian-project.de> wrote:
>
> Peter Seibel wrote:
>> Because I didn't call RAW-POST-DATA; it was called by the Hunchentoot
>> internals when I called SEND-HEADERS. And after that without my patch
>> you can no longer get anything via POST-PARAMETERS. I don't see any
>> reason that calling SEND-HEADERS should make it impossible to get at
>> POST-PARAMETERS (and pre-1.0 it didn't which is how I ran into this
>> problem--my previously working code stopped working when I upgraded to
>> 1.0)
>
> I see. So is there a pressing reason to call SEND-HEADERS before
> collecting post parameters?

Well, a big pile of previously working code. And if you're not allowed
to call POST-PARAMETERS after SEND-HEADERS then the docs should say
so. So is it easier to patch the code to allow the old (and sometimes
useful behavior) or patch the docs to reflect a somewhat arbitrary
restriction?

-Peter


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