[issue11898] Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions

[Ion Scerbatiuc]

Ion Scerbatiuc <delinhabit at gmail.com> added the comment:

Hello,

I would like to subscribe to the issue. The problem seems to indeed exist in Python 2.7. 

What I'm doing is to proxy HTTP requests (using Django) and the PUT / POST requests are working fine on Python 2.6 but are failing on 2.7 with the error already presented in the first bero's message.

I'm using httplib2 and the code looks like

{{
http = httplib2.Http(timeout=5)
try:
    resp, content = http.request(
        request_url, method,
        body=body, headers=headers)
    except (AttributeError, httplib.ResponseNotReady), e:
        # ...
}}

Body is the result of the Django's request.read() which in fact contain the binary data from the PUT / POST request.

The full stack trace is:
{{
Traceback:
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py" in get_response
  111.                         response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/apps/macleod/macleod/auth.py" in _decorated_view
  33.         return view(request, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py" in wrapped_view
  39.         resp = view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py" in wrapped_view
  52.         return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/apps/macleod/macleod/views.py" in dispatch
  55.         original=request.build_absolute_uri())
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/apps/macleod/macleod/handlers/its.py" in proxy
  51.                 body=body, headers=headers)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py" in request
  1129.                     (response, content) = self._request(conn, authority, uri, request_uri, method, body, headers, redirections, cachekey)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py" in _request
  901.         (response, content) = self._conn_request(conn, request_uri, method, body, headers)
File "/home/cyrus/workspace/macleod/ve/lib/python2.7/site-packages/httplib2/__init__.py" in _conn_request
  862.                 conn.request(method, request_uri, body, headers)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py" in request
  941.         self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py" in _send_request
  975.         self.endheaders(body)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py" in endheaders
  937.         self._send_output(message_body)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/httplib.py" in _send_output
  795.             msg += message_body
}}

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nosy: +cyrus

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