[Zope-dev] Re: '-C' in REQUEST.form ?

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> I have a strange thing in Zope 2.8 and Zope 2.9 I never noticed.
> {'-C': ''} is present in REQUEST.form for a GET request without  arguments.
> A simple script "showrequest" with "return repr (context.REQUEST.form)"
> shows it.
> 
> A bit of digging shows this is due to cgi.py which has the code (in 
> parse()):
>         if sys.argv[1:]:
>             qs = sys.argv[1]
>         else:
>             qs = ""
> 
> And Zope is actually run with the command line:
> /usr/local/bin/python /opt/zope28/lib/python/Zope2/Startup/run.py -C /
> home/fg/zope28/etc/zope.conf
> which explains the '-C'.
> 
> What should we do? Clear sys.argv[1:] on Zope start?

Do we still need CGI support anyway? AFAIK it got just ripped out...

Philipp