[Zope] setHeader, but no getHeader

Andreas Jung Andreas Jung <lists@andreas-jung.com>
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:30:27 +0100


--On Freitag, 31. Januar 2003 10:21 -0600 Mark McEahern <mark@mceahern.com> 
wrote:

> [Andreas Jung [mailto:lists@andreas-jung.com]]
>> get_header() is a method of the REQUEST object and of course not of
>> the RESPONSE object.
>
> So suppose I use response.setHeader() and then, later somewhere else
> during the processing of the request/response, I want to check whether
> that header is set.  I'm not sure I understand how the
> REQUEST.get_header() is relevant?
>

If you really need to look at the headers of the RESPONSE object then
sniff into its header attribute. A get_header() method is IMO
a clear case of YAGNI.

-aj