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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Referrer key missing form os.environ dictionary?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:16:08 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2013-09-26, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
>> Since CGI uses stdout for the finished product, it could have used stdin for
>> the input.
>
> Haven't used CGI in years, but I thought POST data came on stdin?

Yes.  The user data is read via stdin.  The stuff passed via the
environemnt "dictionary" is meta-data (stuff from the HTTP request
headers, and stuff synthesized by the HTTP server).

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