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

Ah, that makes sense.  You could think about providing match patterns
for each of the HTTP methods, in that case -- people might be less
confused by that than strings.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay at racket-lang.org> wrote:
> 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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