[Webware-devel] support for the psp-handler in mod_webkit and ModPythonAdapter

[Stuart Donaldson]

I am encountering numerous problems trying to use the psp-handler with mod_webkit, and some of the more recent code in Webware.

The PSP handler in mod_webkit sets WK_ABSOLUTE=1 to indicate that the request is not relative to one of the webware directories.

HTTPRequest urlPath() checks this, and returns the fsPath() or file system path under this circumstance. That appears to be the only case where the urlPath() returned is a file system path rather than web server url component.

The serverSideInfoForRequestNewAlgorithm does not check for the absolute condition, and tries to process the filesystem path as a url, passing it off to findContext() et al... The old algorithm did check for this by the way.

Is there ever a circumstance where urlPath() should really be returning a filesystem path rather than a URL component? It seems like code which wants to check for absolute paths from the psp-handler should probably look specifically at wether or not the request is an absolute request, and then use fsPath() instead. One of the with urlPath returning a file system path is that it is often combined with other components of a URL to generate new URL's.

It appears that this general approach of using the psp-handler is really broken in the New functions, and I just wanted to check to see if the psp-handler approach is something we want to continue to support, or if it is being phased out. I'm kind of surprised it hasn't come up much before.
Perhaps the problem is that I'm also working with code in NewThreadedAppServer which may not be getting the broad testing we would like.

-Stuart-



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