On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 07:17:04PM +0100, Hamish Lawson wrote:
> Here's the request I send (I'm using wget just now because currently
> the web server is behind a firewall from me and so I'm using a
> terminal session, but I get a similar result at other times with a
> regular browser):
>
> wget --post-data=var=stuff --http-user=XXX --http-passwd=XXX -O log
> http://positron:8080/advising/dump
>
> And here's the dump of the received request:
>
> ====
> Form:
>
> Cookies:
>
> Environment:
> AUTHENTICATE_UID hbl
> CONTENT_LENGTH  0

Hi Hamish,

Sorry for the slow response.  I can't reproduce this Quixote 2.5b1,
Apache 2.2.4 and mod_scgi 1.12 on Debian.  The problem appears to be
inside Apache 2 because the Quixote side of SCGI is getting
CONTENT_LENGTH=0 (or at least it thinks so).  I don't have much idea
as to what's wrong, maybe some Apache options are turned on for that
virtual directory or location that are confusing mod_scgi.  The way
I would debug it would be to start with a minimal Apache
configuration and see if that works.  If so, keep adding stuff until
it stops working.

You could try getting Quixiote out of the picture.  Use a Apache
config like this:

    LoadModule scgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_scgi.so
    SCGIMount /dynamic 127.0.0.1:3000

Then run the "scgi_server.py" module in the scgi distribution, i.e.

    $ python scgi_server.py 3000

That's a simple echo server which is useful for debugging.

  Neil