[racket-dev] [plt] Push #26024: master branch updated

From: Jay McCarthy (jay at racket-lang.org)
Date: Fri Jan 4 10:30:25 EST 2013

The programmer's input is not a string. It is a match pattern, so you can
use 'or', '_', etc.


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

> Why not normalize this at the other end (ie, normalize the provided
> string as well as the actual method) so that "GET" as well as "get"
> will work?
>
> Sam
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 7:45 AM,  <jay at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> > jay has updated `master' from aa5f2e7875 to c07ff948ee.
> >   http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/aa5f2e7875..c07ff948ee
> >
> > =====[ One Commit ]=====================================================
> > Directory summary:
> >  100.0% collects/web-server/scribblings/
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > c07ff94 Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org> 2013-01-04 05:44
> > :
> > | Fixes PR13406
> > :
> >   M collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl | 11 +++++++++--
> >
> > =====[ Overall Diff ]===================================================
> >
> > collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > --- OLD/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> > +++ NEW/collects/web-server/scribblings/dispatch.scrbl
> > @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ or else the filesystem server will never see the
> requests.
> >   [maybe-method
> >    code:blank
> >    (code:line #:method method)]
> > + [method pat]
> >   [maybe-else-clause
> >    code:blank
> >    [else else-fun]])
> > @@ -137,9 +138,15 @@ the @racket[dispatch-fun] given as its first
> argument.
> >  @racket[(next-dispatcher)] to signal to the Web Server that this
> >  dispatcher does not apply.
> >
> > - If any @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests
> > -without methods and GET methods.
> > + The @racket[_method] syntax is used in a @racket[match] expression to
> > +match the @racket[request-method] part of the incoming request
> > +object. However, since HTTP allows methods to use any case, the byte
> > +string from @racket[request-method] is normalized to a lower-case
> > +string. Thus, valid patterns are things like: @racket["get"],
> > + at racket["post"], @racket["head"], @racket[(or "get" "post")], etc.
> >
> > + If @racket[_method] is left out, it assumed to apply to requests
> > +without methods and GET methods.
> >  }
> >
> >  @defform[
>
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