Erik Demaine wrote .. > [As far as I can tell, this is the place to send bugs. > Apologies if this is not correct.] > > Dear Developers, > > I find that req.path_info is in some cases set to None instead of a string > such as ''. My reading of the documentation suggests that req.path_info > should always be a string.
Should read, will be string if set, otherwise None. There are a other members of the request object which are similar, eg, req.finfo, where the values can also be None as well as the indicated type. In effect it just passes through what Apache sets it to, in the circumstances you indicate, it is Apache that is leaving the value as a null pointer and mod_python is simply propogating that. > In particular, req.path_info being None causes a crash in cgihandler. > Lines 541--544 of mod_python/apache.py say > > if len(req.path_info) > 0: > env["SCRIPT_NAME"] = req.uri[:-len(req.path_info)] > else: > env["SCRIPT_NAME"] = req.uri > > which fails on the first line (the len call) if req.path_info is None. Yes, it would appear that it needs fixing. Unless one of the developers does it before you, you can log a bug report at: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON?report=select > Circumstance in which req.path_info is set to None: > Apache .htaccess includes > DirectoryIndex index.html index.py index.cgi > The script is called index.py. > The URI does not mention the script name, just the directory name, as in > http://www.foo.com/directory_containing_index.py/ > > (On the other hand, the URI > http://www.foo.com/directory_with_index.py/index.py > works fine, setting req.path_info to '' as it should.) > > > Let me know if you need further details. > > Erik > -- > Erik Demaine | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~edemaine/
