[mod_python] Request object attribute "content_type" does not support UNICODE STRINGS

On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 21:55, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
> So there is no problem with mod_python?

Setting content_type to a unicode string should not be possible. I don't
know how the other headers are implemented, but some of them are allowed
to contain strings other than us-ascii (but never above 8 bits). The
constraint in HTTP is that headers should never contain multibyte
characters (or should never have to be interpreted as being a multibyte
character), the strings have to contain 8 bit characters.

The problem with python is that a unicode object can contain characters
coming from any encoding, and can be converted to any other encoding.
This means that a unicode object with data coming from us-ascii could be
used in headers by silently encoding them to us-ascii, but this is not
recommended because it would cause a lot of confusion. Programmers
should encode unicode objects to us-ascii strings before using them as
header values.

In short: there is no problem.

Manfred