Well proxy_receiver seems to set it's terminator to 'None', which seems to indicate that the dispatcher should just send it all as it comes without checking for any special terminator (which is indeed what appears to be happening!) The problem is that this dispatcher code: def recv (self, buffer_size): try: data = self.socket.recv (buffer_size) if not data: # a closed connection is indicated by signaling # a read condition, and having recv() return 0. self.handle_close() return '' else: return data is never called at a time when self.socket.recv() returns ''. I think this is the normal signal for a closed socket... so if it's never getting an empty string... does that mean the socket is not closed correctly? Should ayncore be changed so that handle_close() is called whenever close() is called (unless it has already been called in recv)? I'm guessing that the OS takes care of any handles that may be left dangling here... if any. thanks, -steve >>>>> "kapil" == ender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kapil> i'm guessing this has something to do with the default line kapil> terminators that medusa is looking for before it senses kapil> that a data buffer is ready to be processed. it seems like kapil> the url encoded ones request seem to have different line kapil> terminators. you can adjust this the fly by using the kapil> set_terminator() func on the dispatcher. set_terminator can kapil> look for either a set of input chars, or you can adjust the kapil> data buffers to fire off for processing on integer sizes. kapil> hope that helps kapil> kapil _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )