id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 17187,Incompatibility with Cherokee webserver's FastCGI handling,Samuel Cormier-Iijima,sam@…,"This issue is causing any POST request with zero content-length to throw an error (in flup of all places) when set up as a FastCGI backend to Cherokee. {{{ Traceback: File ""/home/sciyoshi/django/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py"" in _get_request 196. self._request = datastructures.MergeDict(self.POST, self.GET) File ""/home/sciyoshi/django/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py"" in _get_post 210. self._load_post_and_files() File ""/home/sciyoshi/django/django/http/__init__.py"" in _load_post_and_files 289. self._post, self._files = QueryDict(self.raw_post_data, encoding=self._encoding), MultiValueDict() File ""/home/sciyoshi/django/django/http/__init__.py"" in _get_raw_post_data 251. self._raw_post_data = self.read() File ""/home/sciyoshi/django/django/http/__init__.py"" in read 301. return self._stream.read(*args, **kwargs) File ""/home/sciyoshi/env2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flup/server/fcgi_base.py"" in read 161. self._waitForData() File ""/home/sciyoshi/env2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flup/server/fcgi_base.py"" in _waitForData 147. self._conn.process_input() File ""/home/sciyoshi/env2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flup/server/fcgi_base.py"" in process_input 711. self._do_unknown_type(rec) File ""/home/sciyoshi/env2/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/flup/server/fcgi_base.py"" in _do_unknown_type 824. self.writeRecord(rec) Exception Type: NameError at /account/ Exception Value: global name 'rec' is not defined }}} This issue happens with the combination of flup==1.0.2, cherokee==1.2.101, and django==1.3. I've already submitted a patch to Cherokee which fixes this on their end, but the edge case may still happen with other servers (an extra FCGI record being sent after the PARAMs). There is a simple fix for this in Django as well, so I'm submitting it here for consideration. ",Bug,closed,HTTP handling,1.3,Normal,needsinfo,cherokee flup fastcgi fcgi content-length uwsgi,sam@… leos@…,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,0,0