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The class should now be converting retry_after of type 'datetime' to HTTP
Date through falcon's ...

feat(errors): allow raising Request Entity Too Large error

Thanks for contributing!

This patch adds the ability to now raise Request Entity Too Large error
directly, instead of jus...

fix(testing): Removed redundant call to upper

bug(API): routing logic should be done after request mw

fix(errors): bring 404 and 405 errors into RFC compliance

Routing logic should be done after the execution of request middleware. The execution of request...

Per RFC 7231 6.5 states that 4xx errors should include a message to the user.
Corrects the 404 a...

This is a minor performance tweak, and only affects the testing suite.

Improve HTTP_RANGE support, Fix #380

Fix the wrong doc in the falcon.API

- Add a test to check whether "bytes=" is supported
- add a simple way to support the "bytes="...

Add some information to the README about the Falcon mailing list,
including how to subscribe and...

Fix Broken Link in README.md

refactor(API): Distinguish between different types of helpers

Link to marconi WSGI is now zaqar wsgi

Divide the helper methods into three groups:

1. Internal functions that are specific to the API...

doc(API): Improve middleware and req_options docs

Expand middleware documentation and add API.req_options docs to the
API reference.

refactor(API): Remove staticmethod

Convert static methods to regular class methods so it is more natural
when calling eachother and...

perf(API): Tune middleware execution

Improve performance of interating through middleware components by
performing the getattr lookup...

refactor(API): Move helpers to API class

Calling methods using self. is slightly faster than calling them
from a separate module or even ...

perf(Request): Cache native stream check

Avoid having to call isinstance every time a new Request object
is initialized. Use a flag that ...

feat(API): Add middlewares to falcon API

A list of Middleware classes can be added to falcon WSGI as keyword arg in API
A middleware will...

fix(setup): Not all modules are cythonized

Ensure all framework modules (besides testing) are cythonized when
Cython is available. Use dyna...

test(req.uri): Test HTTPS URIs

Add tests to cover HTTPS URIs using default and non-default ports.

refactor(falcon.exceptions): Rename module to falcon.errors

It is (arguably) more Pythonic to talk about "errors" as opposed to
"exceptions". Rename the exc...

refactor(HTTPError): Add a "to_" prefix to serialization methods

Perfix the serialization method names (.dict, .json, .xml) with
"to_" in order to more clearly e...

fix(Request): Improve support for content-length under wsgiref

Remove the extra indentation level of the _parse_form_urlencoded
method's body.

Under wsgiref, if no content-length header is provided, an empty
string is inserted. Update falc...

Store blank parameters as '' instead of None

Added support to handle empty query parameters through a global
option set ``RequestOptions`` ap...

perf(Request): Use partition in lieu of split

In the range property, use string.partition instead of string.split, since
the latter executes s...

chore(CONTRIBUTING): Inline Angular.js commit style guide

refactor(HTTPError): Rename "raw" method to "dict"

Rather than make readers hop somewhere else, inline the commit style
information to make it more...

Clean up error classes

Run tests/benchmarks on PyPy3

This patch cleans up HTTPInvalidHeader and HTTPInvalidParam, and adds
two additional, distinct c...

This patch implements the following:

* Use "e.g." instead of "for example"
* Document c...

This patch modifies HTTPMethodNotAllowed so that it no longer supports
adding details (since it ...

fix(testing): create_environ does not decode the path

Issues/261

WSGI servers decode the path submitted in the request before passing it
to the app via the PATH_...

This patch contains a variety of minor performance enhancements for
the Request class. In the co...

This patch shaves some microseconds off uri.parse_query_string by
switching to using a combinati...

Rather than always normalizing these headers up front, this patch
simply uses the names as they ...

fix(HTTPError): Remove dependency on blank title to determine serialization

This patch attempts to make the code easier to understand and maintain
going forward by removing...

feat(HTTPError): Support custom media types for error responses

feat(Requests): Add req.host and req.subdomain

This patch adds two new properties, .host and .subdomain, to the
Request class. req.host works w...

This patch adds support for serializing errors to other media types
besides the generic JSON and...

doc: Quickstart example doesn't work on Py3K due to json.load

doc: Function _generate_id() in the tutorial is not py3k compatible

fix(Request): Empty value in query string should not be parsed into None

feat(Response): Add convenience method for setting stream and length

Add convenience methods for msgpack to Request.

Signed-off-by: kgriffs <kurt.griffiths@rackspac...

json.load in Python 3 no longer accepts an encoding parameter (or bytes),
so the example was rew...

This patch modifies the function to just generate a UUID, which will
work for both Python 2 and ...

Before this patch, a query string such as "foo=1&foo=&foo=44" would
be parsed into [('foo', '1')...

This adds a convenience method, set_stream(...), to the Response class
for setting the stream an...

fix(Request): Unify behavior of get_param for lists

This patch changes get_param so that it behaves the same whether a
list was specified in the que...

fix(Request): Be more lenient regarding query string param names

fix(Request): Improve parsing of application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Internal refactoring and a few other changes to support restish-ish traversal

enables subclass implementations to provide e.g. restish-style object-based
traversal.

* Add...

This patch allows a wider variety of characters to be used in
query string params, while also sl...

This patch adds error handling for non-ASCII form request bodies. If
an improperly-encoded reque...

This patch improves test coverage of resp.append_header and makes the
approach more consistent w...

Allow duplicate headers to be appended

feat(Response): Add a response helper for setting the Link header

Fix numbered list.