Changes to workaround some bogus clients which either don't include a

content-type header, or include a bogus one.

cgi.py

    FieldStorage.__init__(): if there is no content-type header, use
    text/plain for inner parts, but application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    for outer parts.  Honor any existing content-type header.

    Lower down, if the content-type header is something we don't
    understand, default to text/plain for inner parts, but
    application/x-www-form-urlencoded for outer parts.

    This patch will be proposed for Python 1.5.2

driver

    run_main(): Play some games to get Mailman's special cgi.py
    module.  We import it from Mailman.pythonlib.cgi, but then we jam
    this module into sys.modules['cgi'] so all those imports in all
    those Mailman.Cgi scripts get our special one (without having to
    hack all those scripts!)

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/driver b/scripts/driver
index 8b5c9a2a5..c09f2f576 100644
--- a/scripts/driver
+++ b/scripts/driver
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ def run_main():
                                manual_reprime=1,
                                nofail=0,
                                immediate=1)
+        # pre-load the `cgi' module.  we do this because we're distributing a
+        # slightly different version than the standard Python module.  it's
+        # essentially Python 1.5.2's module, with an experimental patch to
+        # handle clients that give bogus or non-existant content-type headers.
+        #
+        # we assign sys.modules['cgi'] to this special cgi module because we
+        # don't want to have to rewrite all the Mailman.Cgi modules to get the
+        # special one.
+        import Mailman.pythonlib.cgi
+        sys.modules['cgi'] = Mailman.pythonlib.cgi
         # The name of the module to run is passed in argv[1].  What we
         # actually do is import the module named by argv[1] that lives in the
         # Mailman.Cgi package.  That module must have a main() function, which