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−News
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−====
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−
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−.. contents::
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−
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−0.9
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−---
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−
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−* Added ``req.urlarg``, which represents positional arguments in
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−  ``environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']``.
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−
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−* For Python 2.4, added attribute get/set proxies on exception objects
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−  from, for example, ``webob.exc.HTTPNotFound().exception``, so that
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−  they act more like normal response objects (despite not being
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−  new-style classes or ``webob.Response`` objects).  In Python 2.5 the
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−  exceptions are ``webob.Response`` objects.
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−
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−Backward Incompatible Changes
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−~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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−
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−* The ``Response`` constructor has changed: it is now ``Response([body],
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−  [status], ...)`` (before it was ``Response([status], [body], ...)``).
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−  Body may be str or unicode.
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−
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−* The ``Response`` class defaults to ``text/html`` for the
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−  Content-Type, and ``utf8`` for the charset (charset is only set on
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−  ``text/*`` and ``application/*+xml`` responses).
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−
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−Bugfixes and Small Changes
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−~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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−
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−* Use ``BaseCookie`` instead of ``SimpleCookie`` for parsing cookies.
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−
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−* Added ``resp.write(text)`` method, which is equivalent to
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−  ``resp.body += text`` or ``resp.unicode_body += text``, depending on
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−  the type of ``text``.
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−
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−* The ``decode_param_names`` argument (used like
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−  ``Request(decode_param_names=True)``) was being ignored.
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−
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−* Unicode decoding of file uploads and file upload filenames were
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−  causing errors when decoding non-file-upload fields (both fixes from
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−  Ryan Barrett).
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−
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−0.8.5
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−-----
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−
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−* Added response methods ``resp.encode_content()`` and
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−  ``resp.decode_content()`` to gzip or ungzip content.
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−
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−* ``Response(status=404)`` now works (before you would have to use
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−  ``status="404 Not Found"``).
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−
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−* Bugfix (typo) with reusing POST body.
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−
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−* Added ``226 IM Used`` response status.
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−
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−* Backport of ``string.Template`` included for Python 2.3
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−  compatibility.
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−
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−0.8.4
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−-----
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−
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−* ``__setattr__`` would keep ``Request`` subclasses from having
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−  properly settable environ proxies (like ``req.path_info``).
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−
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−0.8.3
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−-----
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−
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−* ``request.POST`` was giving FieldStorage objects for *every*
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−  attribute, not just file uploads.  This is fixed now.
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−
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−
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−* Added request attributes ``req.server_name`` and ``req.server_port``
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−  for the environ keys ``SERVER_NAME`` and ``SERVER_PORT``.
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−
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−* Avoid exceptions in ``req.content_length``, even if
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−  ``environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']`` is somehow invalid.
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−
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−0.8.2
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−-----
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−
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−* Python 2.3 compatibility: backport of ``reversed(seq)``
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−
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−* Made separate ``.exception`` attribute on ``webob.exc`` objects,
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−  since new-style classes can't be raised as exceptions.
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−
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−* Deprecate ``req.postvars`` and ``req.queryvars``, instead using the
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−  sole names ``req.GET`` and ``req.POST`` (also ``req.str_GET`` and
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−  ``req.str_POST``).  The old names give a warning; will give an error
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−  in next release, and be completely gone in the following release.
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−
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−* ``req.user_agent`` is now just a simple string (parsing the
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−  User-Agent header was just too volatile, and required too much
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−  knowledge about current browsers).  Similarly,
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−  ``req.referer_search_query()`` is gone.
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−
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−* Added parameters ``version`` and ``comment`` to
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−  ``Response.set_cookie()``, per William Dode's suggestion.
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−
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−* Was accidentally consuming file uploads, instead of putting the
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−  ``FieldStorage`` object directly in the parameters.
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−
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−0.8.1
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−-----
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−
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−* Added ``res.set_cookie(..., httponly=True)`` to set the ``HttpOnly``
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−  attribute on the cookie, which keeps Javascript from reading the
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−  cookie.
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−
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−* Added some WebDAV-related responses to ``webob.exc``
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−
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−* Set default ``Last-Modified`` when using ``response.cache_expire()``
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−  (fixes issue with Opera)
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−
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−* Generally fix ``.cache_control``
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−
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−0.8
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−---
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−
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−First release.  Nothing is new, or everything is new, depending on how
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−you think about it.
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