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revno: 1249
committer: Mark Sapiro <msap...@value.net>
branch nick: 2.2
timestamp: Sat 2013-04-06 22:56:29 -0700
message:
Defended against buggy web servers that don't include an empty
QUERY_STRING in the CGI environment. (LP: 1160647)
modified:
NEWS
scripts/driver
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=== modified file 'NEWS'
--- NEWS 2013-04-07 00:55:28 +0000
+++ NEWS 2013-04-07 05:56:29 +0000
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@
Bug Fixes and other patches
+ - Defended against buggy web servers that don't include an empty
+ QUERY_STRING in the CGI environment. (LP: 1160647)
+
- The Switchboard.finish() method now logs the text of the exception when
it fails to unlink/preserve a .bak file. (LP: 1165589)
=== modified file 'scripts/driver'
--- scripts/driver 2010-08-08 21:23:25 +0000
+++ scripts/driver 2013-04-07 05:56:29 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# -*- python -*-
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2010 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@
# Mailman.Cgi package. That module must have a main() function, which
# we dig out and call.
scriptname = sys.argv[1]
+ # Then we truncate sys.argv because buggy web servers have been
+ # observed which do not provide an empty QUERY_STRING in the
+ # environment which causes cgi.FieldStorage() to add sys.argv[1:] to
+ # the constructed instance.
+ del sys.argv[1:]
# See the reference manual for why we have to do things this way.
# Note that importing should have no side-effects!
pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(), [scriptname])
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