[Zope] Problem with Zope and Proxy server

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Duncan Booth wrote:

> > Well, it seems like the proxy is cutting of the 
> > value=123
> > content.
> > 
> > And ZOPE is complaining, that the proxy request doesn't contain the
> > declared data.
> > 
> > Andreas
> > 
> Close, but it is actually that the proxy is appending \r\n\0  to the 
> data, and Zope is getting confused.
Sorry, it's not easy to read wordwrapped python strings that lengthy :(
> > > 'value=123\015\012\015\012\000'
> 
> A bit more investigation, and what I think is happening is that Zope 
> receives and processes the request, then it finds the extra '\000' on 
> the end of the data and tries to process that as another request. Not 
> surprisingly this fails, (a tuple unpack throws an exception) but all of 
> the side effects from the original request have been committed as 
> though the request had succeeded.
Well, this sounds like a bug in the proxy, but one, that could be probably
worked around in ZOPE, right?

Andreas
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