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WSGI request and response object

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WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Specifically it does this by wrapping the WSGI request environment and response status/headers/app_iter(body).

The request and response objects provide many conveniences for parsing HTTP request and forming HTTP responses. Both objects are read/write: as a result, WebOb is also a nice way to create HTTP requests and parse HTTP responses.

Support and Documentation

See the WebOb Documentation website to view documentation, report bugs, and obtain support.

License

WebOb is offered under the MIT-license.

Authors

WebOb was authored by Ian Bicking and is currently maintained by the Pylons Project and a team of contributors.

1.5.0b0 (2015-09-06)

Bug Fixes

Features

1.5.0a1 (2015-07-30)

Backwards Incompatibilities

  • Response.set_cookie renamed the only required parameter from “key” to “name”. The code will now still accept “key” as a keyword argument, and will issue a DeprecationWarning until WebOb 1.7.

  • The status attribute of a Response object no longer takes a string like None None and allows that to be set as the status. It now has to at least match the pattern of <integer status code> <explenation of status code>. Invalid status strings will now raise a ValueError.

1.5.0a0 (2015-07-25)

Backwards Incompatibilities

  • Morsel will no longer accept a cookie value that does not meet RFC6265’s cookie-octet specification. Upon calling Morsel.serialize a warning will be issued, in the future this will raise a ValueError, please update your cookie handling code. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/172

    The cookie-octet specification in RFC6265 states the following characters are valid in a cookie value:

    Hex Range

    Actual Characters

    [0x21 ]

    !

    [0x25-0x2B]

    #$%&'()*+

    [0x2D-0x3A]

    -./0123456789:

    [0x3C-0x5B]

    <=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[

    [0x5D-0x7E]

    ]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~

    RFC6265 suggests using base 64 to serialize data before storing data in a cookie.

    Cookies that meet the RFC6265 standard will no longer be quoted, as this is unnecessary. This is a no-op as far as browsers and cookie storage is concerned.

  • Response.set_cookie now uses the internal make_cookie API, which will issue warnings if cookies are set with invalid bytes. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/172

Features

  • Add support for some new caching headers, stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error that can be used by reverse proxies to cache stale responses temporarily if the backend disappears. From RFC5861. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/189

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