#9435: Check out behaviour of wsgi backend with PATH_INFO being an empty string ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: mtredinnick | Owner: nobody Status: new | Milestone: Component: Core framework | Version: 1.0 Keywords: | Stage: Unreviewed Has_patch: 0 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Transferring a side-issue from #3414 (comment 23 over there):
Note: the WSGI spec allows PATH_INFO to be empty or missing; specifically: "This may be an empty string, if the request URL targets the application root and does NOT have a trailing slash." (emph. added) And WSGI servers are allowed to omit PATH_INFO (and various other variables) if they are an empty string. IIUC, this means that [8105] doesn't correctly handle the case where someone goes to "foo.com/django" (no trailing '/'), because it wrongly assumes that a missing PATH_INFO is a '/'. Per the WSGI spec, a missing PATH_INFO is in fact an empty string. That means that relative URLs at the root of a Django site would not work correctly under servers that omit an empty PATH_INFO. Whether the OP issue here is a configuration problem is irrelevant to this piece: it is perfectly legal for a WSGI server to omit PATH_INFO if it's an empty string, and its omission means that it's an EMPTY string, not a '/'. Conversely, if a WSGI server is ommitting PATH_INFO when PATH_INFO should be a "/" (i.e. the URL was "foo.com/django/" with a trailing "/"), then that server is seriously broken and should be fixed. (But I'm not seeing anything here that suggests this is actually the case.) Either way, however, the code that's defaulting a missing PATH_INFO to "/" appears to be quite wrong: either creating a bug or masking one somewhere else. -- Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9435> Django <http://code.djangoproject.com/> The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-updates@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
