[mod_python] Why do I get a 405 ERROR on HEAD REQUEST?

Hi,

I don't use the publisher, but i take a look and find something interesting
:

As you find if that's not a "GET" or a "POST" an http error is returned to
the client :

publisher.py :

47    req.allow_methods(["GET", "POST"])
48    if req.method not in ["GET", "POST"]:
49        raise apache.SERVER_RETURN, apache.HTTP_METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED

But somewhere the method "HEAD" is correctly handled :

155        if req.method != "HEAD":
156            req.write(result)
157        else:
158            req.write("")
159        return apache.OK

Since the result is everything that's should be send after the header, this
work.
It's look like the previous code [47-49] was added after but, i don't know
why.

Somebody have an idea ?

Well, you should either write your own handler, or keep the modified
publisher if it fit your needs.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: mod_python-bounces at modpython.org
On Behalf Of steven a
Sent: lundi, 23. août 2004 06:38

hmm,

it seems that adding "HEAD" to this code in modpython/publisher.py fixes
the issue:

(around line 41)

def handler(req):
    req.allow_methods(["GET", "POST"])
    if req.method not in ["GET", "POST"]:


is there a more elegant way to fix this?  why does the publisher handler
set the allowable methods?  shouldn't i have control over that?   do i
and just not know it?  or do i just have to create my  own publisher?

thanks,s

steven a wrote:

> Why do I get a 405 ERROR on HEAD REQUEST?
>
> Here is an example request when using mod_python.publisher:
>
> bash-2.05b$ telnet my.host.org 80
> Trying 55.55.55.55...
> Connected to my.host.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> HEAD /python/viva.py/list HTTP/1.1
> Host: my.host.org
>
> HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:08:02 GMT
> Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Gentoo/Linux) mod_python/3.1.3 Python/2.3.3
> mod_ssl/2.0.50 OpenSSL/0.9.7d
> Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,TRACE
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
>
> Thanks,
> s