Odd cgi.FieldStorage behavior

[Tim Roberts]

vxg49 at yahoo.com (Fred Murray) wrote:
>
>When uploading a file ("input type=file"), FieldStorage usually
>behaves correctly, but every once in a while (every couple days?), it
>will suddenly start causing internal server errors.  A look at the
>apache (v. 2.0.44 on Linux) error log shows "premature end of script
>headers" with no error messages from Python.  After reloading the
>browser about 10 times in a row, it will suddenly start working again.
> Recently, when a series of these errors was occuring, I removed the
>FieldStorage line from my program and it completed normally.  When I
>put the line back in again, the internal server errors resumed.  Thus,
>it seems that the bug is either in FieldStorage itself or in something
>FieldStorage interacts with.
>
>It seems odd that that there are no errors in the log from Python. 
>Does this mean the program is crashing before it can output a
>traceback to stderr?

It often means the script terminated normally without outputting any HTML,
or that you caught an error with a try/finally and didn't reraise the
error.
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