Hi!

I patched quixote (0.7a2) to write the html traceback
to a file. The html tracebacks contains more information than
the text version.

 Thomas

--- config.py_orig      2004-02-19 11:25:07.000000000 +0100
+++ config.py   2004-02-19 11:11:31.000000000 +0100
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@
 ACCESS_LOG = None
 #ACCESS_LOG = "/www/log/quixote-access.log"

+# The HTML traceback created by cgitb can be logged to a directory
+HTML_TRACEBACK_DIR = None
+
 # Filename for logging error messages; if None, everything will be sent
 # to standard error, so it should wind up in the Web server's error log
 # file.
@@ -189,6 +192,7 @@
         'access_log',
         'debug_log',
         'display_exceptions',
+        'html_traceback_dir',
         'secure_errors',
         'error_log',
         'run_once',

--- publish.py_0_7a2    2004-02-19 11:29:58.000000000 +0100
+++ publish.py  2004-02-19 11:23:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
         self.namespace_stack = [self.root_namespace]

         self.exit_now = 0
+        self.html_traceback_dir = None
         self.access_log = None
         self.error_log = sys.stderr     # possibly overridden in setup_logs()
         sys.stdout = self.error_log     # print is handy for debugging
@@ -357,13 +358,36 @@
             # secure (and cryptic) page.
             request.response.set_header("Content-Type", "text/html")
             user_error_msg = self._generate_internal_error(request)
-        elif self.config.display_exceptions == 'html' and cgitb is not None:
+        elif cgitb and (self.config.display_exceptions == 'html'  or \
+                        self.config.html_traceback_dir):
             # Generate a spiffy HTML display using cgitb
             request.response.set_header("Content-Type", "text/html")
-            user_error_msg = self._generate_cgitb_error(request,
+            html_error_msg = self._generate_cgitb_error(request,
                                                         original_response,
                                                         exc_type, exc_value,
                                                         tb)
+            if self.config.display_exceptions == 'html':
+                user_error_msg=html_error_msg
+
+            if self.config.html_traceback_dir:
+                # Write HTML-Traceback to file
+                now=time.time()
+
+                # Timestamp plus milliseconds for unique and sortable
filename
+                filename="%s-%s.html" % (time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S",
+                                                  time.localtime(now)),
+                                         long(now*10000)%10000)
+                if not os.path.isdir(self.config.html_traceback_dir):
+                    self.error_log.write(
+                        "html_traceback_dir does not exist: %s\n" %
+                        self.config.html_traceback_dir)
+                else:
+                    filename_abs=os.path.join(self.config.html_traceback_dir,
+                                              filename)
+                    fd=open(filename_abs, "wt")
+                    fd.write(html_error_msg)
+                    fd.close()
+
         else:
             # Generate a plaintext page containing the traceback
             request.response.set_header("Content-Type", "text/plain")


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Thomas Güttler, TBZ-PARIV GmbH, Bernsdorfer Str. 210-212, 09126 Chemnitz
Tel.: 0371/5221217 Fax:  0371/5221216