New submission from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <b...@arklinux.org>: Sending e.g. a JPEG file with a httplib POST request (e.g. through mechanize) can result in an error like this:
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 947, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 988, in _send_request self.endheaders(body) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 941, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 802, in _send_output msg += message_body UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 2566: invalid start byte The code triggering this is the attempt to merge the msg and message_body into a single request in httplib.py lines 791+ The patch I'm attaching treats an invalid string of unknown encoding (e.g. binary data wrapped as string) like something that isn't a string. Works for me with the patch. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: python-2.7.1-fix-httplib-UnicodeDecodeError.patch keywords: patch messages: 134211 nosy: bero priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions type: behavior versions: Python 2.7 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21747/python-2.7.1-fix-httplib-UnicodeDecodeError.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11898> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com