# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1124919354 0
# Node ID cf6356dbde7607e7260a83668fbfdaa0434e2254
# Parent  ef07fa642f025fc4d01f4d9109ce1658c325f2fa
[project @ 2005-08-24 21:35:54 by paulb]
Updated release information and added testing notes about paths, parameters
and encodings.

diff -r ef07fa642f02 -r cf6356dbde76 README.txt
--- a/README.txt	Wed Aug 24 21:33:22 2005 +0000
+++ b/README.txt	Wed Aug 24 21:35:54 2005 +0000
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
 
 BaseHTTPRequestHandler      Python 2.2.2, Python 2.3.3, Python 2.4.1
 CGI                         Apache 2.0.44, Apache 2.0.53, AOLserver 4.0.10, lighttpd 1.3.15
-Jython/Java Servlet API     Jython 2.1, Java JDK 1.3.1_02, Tomcat 4.1.27 (Servlet 2.3)
+Jython/Java Servlet API     Jython 2.1, Java JDK 1.3.1_02, Tomcat 4.1.31 (Servlet 2.3)
 mod_python                  3.0.3 (3.1.3 for framework cookie and session support)
 Twisted                     1.0.5, 1.3.0
-Webware                     0.8.1, CVS (2004-02-06)
+Webware                     0.8.1, CVS (2004-02-06), 0.9b2
 WSGI                        run_with_cgi (PEP 333)
 Zope                        2.7.2-0, 2.8.0-final
 
@@ -195,7 +195,13 @@
 Interpretation of path field encodings needs to be verified. Currently,
 stray path fields are handled (eg. in WebStack.Helpers.Request) as being
 ISO-8859-1, but it might be the case that some such fields might be
-submitted as UTF-8.
+submitted as UTF-8. The decode_path method on Transaction does do much of the
+work that is likely to be required, however.
+
+An interesting test of encodings is to introduce things like the following to
+the path info and query string sections of the URL: %25F0?%E6=%F8&%25F0=%F8
+This should produce the following decoded result: %F0?æ=ø&%F0=ø
+(The above needs to be read in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15.)
 
 Cookie objects need defining strictly, especially since the standard library
 Cookie object behaves differently to mod_python (and possibly Webware)
@@ -228,7 +234,7 @@
 
 Investigate proper support for HEAD, OPTIONS and other request methods.
 
-Consider packages for different operating systems.
+Consider packages for different operating systems (other than Debian).
 
 (Completed/rejected)