Ticket #16532: patch_16532.txt

File patch_16532.txt, 1.0 KB (added by rbanffy, 14 years ago)

Patch adding note on the CGI convention used in headers passed to the test client

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1Index: docs/topics/testing.txt
2===================================================================
3--- docs/topics/testing.txt (revision 16553)
4+++ docs/topics/testing.txt (working copy)
5@@ -710,6 +710,17 @@
6 details view, which is a good way to test code paths that use the
7 :meth:`django.http.HttpRequest.is_ajax()` method.
8
9+ .. admonition:: CGI specification
10+
11+ The headers sent via ``**extra`` should follow CGI_ specification. For
12+ example, A "Host" header specified in the HTTP request sent from the
13+ browser to the server should be passed as ``HTTP_HOST``, which is
14+ where ``django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIRequest.get_host`` looks to
15+ determine the host serving the request.
16+
17+ .. _CGI: http://www.w3.org/CGI/
18+
19+
20 If you already have the GET arguments in URL-encoded form, you can
21 use that encoding instead of using the data argument. For example,
22 the previous GET request could also be posed as::
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