Peace, Pythonphiles!
Python's std lib BaseHTTPServer: I'm stuck with a nasty spoiler -- I
get erratic "Network error: disconnected by peer" for _POST_ requests
only.
=Background=
I'm developing a Python CGI app. Was using Xitami, which is really
light and nice, reasonable performance (circa 200-300 msec to respond,
I guess mostly to start a Python process; localhost; win95 (retch!)).
But, deployed site is the usual Apache/Linux monstrosity. And I wanted
to use mod_rewrite, to export nice URLs. Xitami is inflexible about
URL associations with scripts.
So I tried hacking a python22/libs/SimpleHTTPServe r to "simulate"
Apache's mod_rewrite. It's unbelievable easy!
=The problem=
GET requests work fantastically! 40-100 millisecs to render response
in HTML -- I was really surprised!
But POST requests fail: the script runs ok, response fully generated
and written to stdout, but somewhere while rendering Netscape aborts
with that "Network error: lost connection, disconnected by peer".
This is erratic: sometimes not a character was displayed before it
disconnects, and sometimes the entire page _except the last line_.
These tools are of course buggy as hell, and I learned to "live" with
their limitations during the years, but this one really gets me down:
I want to use Python's *HTTPServer to experiment with FCGI and a
standalone, dedicated Web server for this application, and the
performance was so nice, and _I haven't a clue as to why this strange
behavior occurs_!
Help!!!
=Details=
Invoking script:
sys.stdout = self.wfile
sys.stdin = self.rfile
execfile( "my_cgi.py" , {} )
with both in/out set to _no buffering_:
rbufsize = 0
wbufsize = 0
(Actually, more like
sys.stdout = cgi_output = StringIO.String IO()
#...
self.send_respo nse( status )
self.wfile.writ e( cgi_output.getv alue() )
so can (keep a log and) scan the script's output for a "Status:"
header, aka "parsed-headers CGI" -- I'm simulating Apache, right?)
I tried pausing just before exiting the request handling call:
time.sleep( 25 ) # Trying to get smart with bug?
and it _sometimes_ helps! ie, Netscape renders the page, then gives up
on waiting for the connection to close, I guess, so... there.
But, unreliable.
=Guess?=
I've no idea where to look -- what's different between a GET and
POST?!
It's probably some Micrapsoft buffoonery with sockets.
I really like to patch this somehow.
Any suggestions about how to find the exact point of failure?
Thanks!
-- M
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