WebOb 1.6.0a0

WSGI request and response object

WebOb provides objects for HTTP requests and responses. Specifically it does this by wrapping the WSGI request environment and response status/headers/app_iter(body).

The request and response objects provide many conveniences for parsing HTTP request and forming HTTP responses. Both objects are read/write: as a result, WebOb is also a nice way to create HTTP requests and parse HTTP responses.

Support and Documentation

See the WebOb Documentation website to view documentation, report bugs, and obtain support.

License

WebOb is offered under the MIT-license.

Authors

WebOb was authored by Ian Bicking and is currently maintained by the Pylons Project and a team of contributors.

1.6.0a0 (2016-01-28)

Compatibility

• Python 3.2 is no longer supported by WebOb

Bugfix

• Request.decode attempted to read from the an already consumed stream, it has now been redirected to another stream to read from. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/183
• The application/json media type does not allow for a charset as discovery of the encoding is done at the JSON layer. Upon initialization of a Response WebOb will no longer add a charset if the content-type is set to JSON. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/197 and https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/1611

Features

• Lazily HTML escapes environment keys in HTTP Exceptions so that those keys in the environ that are not used in the output of the page don’t raise an exception due to inability to be properly escaped. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/139
• MIMEAccept now accepts comparisons against wildcards, this allows one to match on just the media type or sub-type, without having to explicitly match on both the media type and sub-type at the same time. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/185
• Add the ability to return a JSON body from an exception. Using the Accept information in the request, the exceptions will now automatically return a JSON version of the exception instead of just HTML or text. See https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/230 and https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/209

Security

• exc._HTTPMove and any subclasses will now raise a ValueError if the location field contains a line feed or carriage return. These values may lead to possible HTTP Response Splitting. The header_getter descriptor has also been modified to no longer accept headers with a line feed or carriage return. See: https://github.com/Pylons/webob/pull/229 and https://github.com/Pylons/webob/issues/217