[Richard Ellerbrock]

I continuously get the following error in my error log. Unfortunately I do not know what leads to the error.

admin: [----- Mailman Version: 1.0rc1 -----] admin: [----- Traceback ------] admin: Traceback (innermost last): admin: File "/home/mailman/scripts/driver", line 112, in run_main admin: main() admin: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 40, in main admin: FormatListinfoOverview() admin: File "/home/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py", line 66, in FormatListinf oOverview admin: if port and http_host[-len(port)-1:] == ':'+port: admin: AttributeError: __getslice__

Apparently your web server isn't defining the HTTP_HOST environment variable when running CGI scripts. The CGI/1.1 spec says that SERVER_NAME should hold

The server's hostname, DNS alias, or IP address as it would appear in self-referencing URLs"

(but doesn't mention HTTP_HOST...), so with the below (just-checked-in) patch Mailman falls back on SERVER_NAME when HTTP_HOST is unset:

Index: listinfo.py

RCS file: /export/public/cvsroot/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py,v retrieving revision 1.10 retrieving revision 1.11 diff -u -r1.10 -r1.11 --- listinfo.py 1999/05/02 22:57:45 1.10 +++ listinfo.py 1999/05/22 10:06:09 1.11 @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@

 # XXX We need a portable way to determine the host by which we are being 
 #     visited!  An absolute URL would do...

• http_host = os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST')

• http_host = os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST') or\

•            os.environ.get('SERVER_NAME')
  

  port = os.environ.get('SERVER_PORT') # strip off the port if there is one if port and http_host[-len(port)-1:] == ':'+port:

Thanks for the bug report,

Harald