From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-08-22T08:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Webshare

Patrick May wrote:

> P.S. <rant> About the only cgi design suggestion I see on ruby-talk that 
> I outright disagree with is Request / Response.
> 
> I experimented with this in Narf, and I think it is a mistake.  You end 
> up with two objects, with alot of shared implementation code

I strongly disagree. Request and response are two completely different 
things; that their implementations _might_ have shared code (though I 
can't see where) doesn't mean that they have shared data. You receive a 
request object that contains the request method, URL, form parameters, 
cookies and headers, and you create a response object that consists of 
the body, cookies and headers and send it back to the server; the data 
of both objects has nothing in common.

Example:

if request.params['password'] = 'xyz'
	response.header['Content-Type'] = 'text/plain'
	response.cookies << { 'session_id' => 'abcde' }
	response.body = 'logged in'
end

I really can't see how a combined request/response object would make any 
sense here.