Per request environment not cleaned between requests with mod_python

[André Cruz]

I'm using a single sign-on system called Shibboleth which is implemented via an Apache module that populates the request environment with information about the logged-in user (if there is one) to the underlying application, Django in this case.

What I'm seeing is, when a logged-in user appears, the vars are set and I can access them in the views with os.environ[VAR]. After that, all requests remain with those vars set, even if the Shibboleth module does not set them in the request environment.

I think this is because of this line in the modpython handler:

  os.environ.update(req.subprocess_env)

This adds the vars to the environ but does not clear them if they are not there. Maybe a copy of the original environment should be kept and restored after the request is served. Or is there a way to access the req.subprocess_env in a view?

[James Bennett]

(In [8755]) Fixed #8658: Added cross-references to signals docs from Model.save() docs

[James Bennett]

(wrong ticket number in commit message)

[Jacob]

mod_python has been deprecated and will be removed shortly so we're no longer fixing bugs related to mod_python. Switch to mod_wsgi (or another WSGI container) and all your prayers will be answered!