Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] New http::client code errors

[Divye K. <div...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

The error has something to do with the CGI script not executable
> because the path has a space in it. I'm not sure if it's a Python bug
> or something else, but because the HTTP server isn't able to run the
> CGI script, the socket gets closed prematurely and the client gets the
> error as an EOF.
>

I was able to reproduce the issue. The error lies with a standard library
script of python not handling paths with spaces as it should. As of now,
moving the files seems to be the only option till a patch can be developed.

Python bug ids:
1535504 17 months ago CGIHTTPServer doesn't handle path names with embeded
space <http://bugs.python.org/issue1535504> open htgoebel    1436206 24
months ago CGIHTTPServer doesn't handle path names with embeded
space<http://bugs.python.org/issue1436206>
open rick-eci
1235 7 months ago CGIHTTPRequestHandler.run_cgi() does not run on Windows if
sys.executable contains blanks <http://bugs.python.org/issue1235>


Divye

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