[Patches] [ python-Patches-1535504 ] CGIHTTPServer doesn't handle path names with embeded space

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Patches item #1535504, was opened at 2006-08-06 19:43
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Category: Library (Lib)
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Hartmut Goebel (htgoebel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: CGIHTTPServer doesn't handle path names with embeded space

Initial Comment:
This is a patch for Bug #1436206:

On Windows, if the path name of a CGI script to be run
contains space characters, it need to be quoted
properly when called via os.popen2/3. Otherwise the
script can not be executed.

Solved by using commands.mkarg() to quote arguments
where necessary.


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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-15 07:48

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Which error is that? Is it perhaps this: http://python.org/sf/1124861 ?

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Comment By: Hartmut Goebel (htgoebel)
Date: 2007-03-14 21:22

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I think the best way to solve this would be to use the
subprocess module, as amk suggested.

I included a new patch which for CGIHTTPServer which uses subprocess.
Unfortunately 
this does not work ion Windows due to a problem with subprocess: On
Windows 
passing the request.rfile (a _fileobject wrapper arround the socket) as
stdin/out
lead to an error. I'll file a bugreport on that case.

Beside of this, the patch should solve the problem in a
platform-independent way.
File Added: CGIHTTPServer.patch

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-13 19:36

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Note that commands.mkarg() is written for UNIX shells. While it may work
with spaces in the file name, it may produce illegal Windows command line
commands in other cases.

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Comment By: A.M. Kuchling (akuchling)
Date: 2006-10-27 17:54

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Would it simplify matters if CGIHTTPServer used the
subprocess module, which tries to provide a
platform-independent interface?


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