From: TAKAHASHI Masayoshi <maki@...>
Date: 2001-09-19T19:56:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21385] Re: Suggestions for new CGI lib

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) wrote:
> Then what if there are multiple values for a form name, for example:
> 
>   GET /script.cgi?user_var=foo&user_var=bar HTTP/1.1
>   Host: www.example.com
>   Connection: close
> 
> What should be returned for cgi.request["user_var"]?  Possible
> solution can be any of:
> 
>   * "foo\0bar"      (Perl's cgi-lib.pl and cgi-lib.rb)
>   * ["foo", "bar"]  (cgi.rb)
>   * #<FieldStorage> (Python's cgi.py)
>   * or something else

    * "bar"           (PHP4)

But when you use "[]" as variable name, like
"/script.cgi?user_var[]=foo&user_var[]=bar", you get:

    * ["foo", "bar"]  (PHP4)

Is it useful?


Regards,

TAKAHASHI Masayoshi