On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 12:34:03PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
>I agree.  HTTPRequest is closer to HTTP and the server, so should
>workaround server bugs like this.

OK; a proposed patch is below (I'll finish writing the comment before
checking it in).  Mikhail, can you please give it a try with this
patch and see if your problem is fixed?  Greg, Neil: note that this
code ends up mutating the 'environ' mapping passed into the
constructor; is that OK or should I .copy() the dictionary first?
(IMHO I can live with this tiny bit of evil.)

--amk

Index: http_request.py
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/mems/quixote/http_request.py,v
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diff -C2 -r1.29 http_request.py
*** http_request.py     2001/09/13 20:33:41     1.29
--- http_request.py     2001/10/05 16:46:44
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*** 186,190 ****
              self.cookies = {}

!
      def process_inputs (self):
          """Process request inputs.
--- 186,199 ----
              self.cookies = {}

!         # IIS reports the same information in both PATH_INFO
!         # and SCRIPT_NAME;
!         web_server = environ.get('SERVER_SOFTWARE', 'unknown')
!         if (web_server.find('Microsoft-IIS') != -1):
!             script = environ['SCRIPT_NAME']
!             path = environ['PATH_INFO']
!             if path.startswith(script):
!                 path = path[len(script):]
!                 self.environ['PATH_INFO'] = path
!
      def process_inputs (self):
          """Process request inputs.