Re: [Qexo-general] re: XqlServlet and Communication between XQL scripts

[Per Bothner]

Ivelin Ivanov wrote:
> > I am not sure yet, how response headers and cookie manipulation can be
> implemented in a clean way.
> Maybe, we can also allow the user to stream out a "response" element as part
> of the result sequence, which in effect controls the output HTTP headers and
> cookies.
> If the result sequence starts with a predefined type of element (e.g.
> http-response),
> QEXO can treat it as something special and which is will not be part of the
> output document.

Qexo already does something like this.  The response-header function
creates a "response header object" - which is basically just a
top-level attribute.  See the HttpPrinter class.

Setting cookies can be done similarly.
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