[Zope] Zope REQUEST variable

[Ted holden]

I pretty much have this application of mine working well enough for government 
work, which is all anybody around Washington D.C. really cares about.

What I ended up doing to retain knowledge of what just happened on the 
previous screen (the situation in which I thought I might require objects) 
was to use something like

     referrer = REQUEST.environ.get('HTTP_REFERER')

and then peel off the calling arguments from the last form with python string 
commands.   This was possible to figure out due to the elegant manner in 
which the REQUEST variable is formatted as a table, and can be printed out 
and then read with a browser.  I mean, everything just stands out.

Is that something the Zope group invented or was that inherited from some 
previous work?

Is that (the table representation of REQUEST) meant to work with some 
particular piece of software i.e. some particular IDE or debugger?