Re: [Jython-users] Errors parsing multipart form data

[Carles B. <cba...@is...>]

Thanks Sven, you saved my life :)
I applied the patch to my Django 1.1 I use with Jython and it worked 
like a charm.

I owe you a beer.
Carles

Sven Klemm wrote:
> Hi Carles,
>
>> I'm using Django-on-Jython and after uploading a WAR file to my local 
>> Tomcat server my app works fine. Then I upload it to a production 
>> server and the forms that use multipart/form-data encoding fail (e.g. 
>> the admin forms, plus my app's file uploads...). The multipart data 
>> is not parsed correctly, it's like the boundaries is not identified 
>> correctly and some of the form fields get weird data (like 
>> "-----------", which is part of the value of the boundary string).
>>
>> Jython version is 2.5.1
>
> I stumbled across the same problem and found the cause. This is a bug 
> in the django multipart parser. It assumes read works non-blocking 
> which is obviously not the case under tomcat. You can find the patch 
> in the django bugtracker:
>
> http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13756
>
> Cheers,
> Sven
>