[web-devel] Re: RFC: A standardized interface between web servers and applications or frameworks (ala WSGI)

On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:06:43 Adam Langley wrote:

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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* Using a different set of data types would work better.

Give that this is Haskell, I'd suggest more types ;)

HTTP headers aren't just strings and, at the risk of tooting my own horn, I'll point to the Headers structure in [1].

And it could go further. The use of a given header is often valid only in certain requests or responses. Perhaps sprinkling some phantom types or type classes around could represent that. Daniel