i'm guessing this has something to do with the default line terminators that medusa is looking for before it senses that a data buffer is ready to be processed. it seems like the url encoded ones request seem to have different line terminators. you can adjust this the fly by using the set_terminator() func on the dispatcher. set_terminator can look for either a set of input chars, or you can adjust the data buffers to fire off for processing on integer sizes. hope that helps kapil On Sunday 21 January 2001 14:15, Steve Spicklemire wrote:
I'm going to try to make a long story short... and the story isn't even over... but I'm getting close. One of our clients is a 'multimedia' company and we're working with a group there that consists mostly of artists and designers who use tools like photoshop and macromedia director. They came to us recently with a project for which they were *going* to use Macromedia Multiuser Server but the complexity of their application is significant..
long story short... I've sold them on the concept of using Zope as the 'media/personality server' for this application. They will use Director (which can post stuff to an URL and can also parse XML). So.. I'm building a framework that permits them to use their favorite tools, but I get to use *my* favorite tool too. ;-) The problem: Director is not a browser. There is no 'view source'. But (I think to myself) this is a great chance to use tcpwatch, which I've never used before. It's a little tricky since my favorite client machine is a Macintosh, and well.. lets just say that Tkinter for the mac is not perfect... not to mention there is no thread module.. but I do have a workaround that's useful (since I run Zope on a FreeBSD server, I just use tcpwatch on FreeBSD and either MI/X, or VirtualPC with Linux for my X server.. ). I noticed however that when I did a 'POST' the URL encoded arguments were lost. I found that the proxy_receiver handle_close method was never called.. so that anything in a 'last line' that didn't end in '\n' was lost. I added the following patch that shows this... but why is handle_close not called? I can only guess that the socket is not being properly closed somehow. I use lib/python/ZPublisher/Client.py to test calls to Zope and it works fine, but the asyncore/asynchat stuff never calls handle_close for proxy_receiver.
Anyway... here's the patch: Comments welcome!
*** ./tcpwatch_orig.py Sat Jan 20 16:55:43 2001 --- ./tcpwatch.py Sun Jan 21 16:52:11 2001 *************** *** 130,135 **** --- 130,137 ---- pos = pos + 1 else: # Last line, may be incomplete. + line = "Partial line? " + data[oldpos:] + '\r\n' + self.watch_output(line, byClient) return data[oldpos:]
def cleanupRefs(self):
take care, -steve
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