[Zope] Problem with POST and text/xml

[Jonathan (dev101)]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Andreas Jung" <lists at zopyx.com>
>To: "Jonathan (dev101)" <dev101 at magma.ca>
>Cc: <zope at zope.org>
>Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 4:30 PM
>Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem with POST and text/xml
>

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/373663
>
> -aj
>
> On 10.07.09 21:24, Jonathan (dev101) wrote:
>> I need to support a third party web service (which is not within my 
>> control)
>> that wants to send xml data to my zope server (Zope 2.9.2 running on 
>> Redhat
>> linux).
>>
>> When Zope receives a POST request with a Content-Type of text/xml it 
>> assumes
>> that it is an xmlrpc call (which it is not - it is just passing xml data
>> within the POST request).
>>
>> Is there a way to get Zope to turn off this "xmlrpc assumption" so that 
>> my
>> zope external method can process the xml data that is being passed?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan

Thanks for the link!

There were some differences between my Zope 2.9.2 installation and the patch 
instructions:

1) There was no interfaces.py file in the ZPublisher source directory (so I 
created a new one)
2) There were some differences in the HTTPRequest.py file, but it was still 
possible to make the changes indicated in the patch instructions.

I restarted Zope via the ZMI, and ran a test (which generated a 500 response 
error). I noticed that there were no pyc/pyo files for interfaces.py and 
HTTPRequest.py, so I created them manually using py_compile.

I restarted Zope and ran another test (using wget to simulate a POST request 
containing xml data) and got a 503 response:

---response begin---
HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable
Server: Zope/(Zope 2.9.2-, python 2.4.2, linux2) ZServer/1.1
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:04:08 GMT
Bobo-Exception-Line: 402
Content-Length: 995
Bobo-Exception-Value: See the server error log for details
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15
Bobo-Exception-Type: NameError
Connection: Keep-Alive
Bobo-Exception-File: HTTPRequest.py


There were no entries in Z2.log or event.log.

Other than manually creating pyc/pyo files and re-starting zope, is there 
anything else I need to do to implement the changes to interfaces.py and 
HTTPRequest.py?  If not, any ideas as to what could be causing this error or 
how I could go about debugging it?


Thanks,

Jonathan