Re: [Simpleweb-Support] DomainHandler with HTTP 1.0

[Jeff N. <je...@ne...>]

An update:

In the Simple API docs for DomainHandler.handle(Request,Response) it  
states:

"For compatibility with HTTP/1.0 clients that do not support the Host  
header this delegates the processing of requests without the Host  
header to a default ProtocolHandler."

Depending on how this statement is interpreted, it is not entirely  
correct, as this method does not look for a 'Host' header unless HTTP/ 
1.1 is being used.

Well low and behold, the PayPal HTTP/1.0 request seems to include a  
'Host' header.  So a workaround (for me) seems possible by  
subclassing DomainHandler and overriding 'handle'.

Jeff



On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Jeff Nichols wrote:

> Hello Niall (and all),
>
> After a tedious 2 day debugging session, I finally figured out why
> PayPal's IPN (Instant Payment Notification) system was not working
> with my server.
>
> I'm using the virtual hosting facilities of Simple (through the
> DomainHandler) and PayPal is (for whatever reason) sending their
> notifications with HTTP/1.0.  This creates a problem, as the
> DomainHandler only works with HTTP/1.1 requests (which should include
> a 'Host' header).
>
> Is there any way around this?  I thought of writing a specialized
> DomainHandler that would fall back to parsing its own 'Host' if none
> was available, but I cannot find anywhere in the Request where the
> entire URL is available.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
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