heinous bug with ... Cheroot?

[chadwhitacre]

I upgraded DataDirect to Aspen 0.22.4 today, and now I'm getting weird behavior from it. If I load it in the browser it's fine, but if I hit it from Python (requests or urllib2) or with curl, the connection drops.

If I mount the app using gunicorn I don't see the problem.

My hypothesis at this point is that it's an interaction between Cheroot and whatever I'm doing with 401 redirecting (302) to a login app.

[chadwhitacre]

I can trigger this in the browser as well by short-circuiting aspen.website.Website:handle to return an empty Response of arbitrary status code (I tested 200 and 410).

So is the problem with Cheroot or with Aspen?

[chadwhitacre]

Okay, I've got my answer for tonight: CherryPy 3.2.2 works. I'm going to install that and use it. Cheroot is simply used as the default.

[chadwhitacre]

@aminusfu might be interested in this. Once we get a test case we should file a ticket over on bitbucket.

[chadwhitacre]

From an instance of very similar behavior at YouGov, it seems that the problem may be in httplib's implementation of chunked encoding relative to CherryPy/Cheroot's.

[pjz]

Did you get enough details on this to file a bug with CherryPy/Cheroot or httplib?

[pjz]

Superseded by #202