[Mailman-Developers] Re: [Mailman-Users] Bug Message

[Scott]

did you happen o forget to include the listname to which you wanted to
subscribe in the url?  if so, then that might solve your problem for
the moment, though the subscribe cgi should be written so that it
presents a more reasonable error in this circumstance.


scott

On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 07:12:55PM -0500, Ken Manheimer wrote:
| On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Alvin Gunkel wrote:
| 
| > 	I have installed mailman and Python 1.5.1 per instructions.  When
| > trying to access the subscribe program I get the following:
| > 
| > We're sorry, we hit a bug!
| > [...]
| > Traceback (innermost last):
| >   File "/u1/mailman/scripts/driver", line 97, in run_main
| >     main()
| >   File "../Mailman/Cgi/subscribe.py", line 30, in main
| >     path = os.environ['PATH_INFO']
| >   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/UserDict.py", line 12, in __getitem__
| >     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
| > KeyError: PATH_INFO
| > 
| > Environment variables:
| > [...]
| 
| The environment variables listed, in fact, lack a PATH_INFO variable,
| which mailman depends upon.  (What HTTP server are you using?)  There is
| what may be an alternative: 
| 
| >  SCRIPT_NAME 
| >                            /mailman/subscribe 
| 
| which we could use as an alternative in our scripts for PATH_INFO, if it
| really is a substitute.  Funny thing is, the variable either does not
| serve as i expect, or the value indicates that you entered an incorrect
| path, somewhere.  
| 
| My question for you is, how you are trying to get at the subscribe
| script? It is not supposed to be visited directly - you should be coming
| to it from a listinfo page for the list to which you're trying to
| subscribe.  E.g., when subscribing to mailman-users@python.org, one
| visits:
| 
| 	http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
| 
| and enters the subscription info, then they hit the 'Subscribe' button. 
| A that point the 'subscribe' script is visited - and then PATH_INFO
| should be set. If not, we'll look for a fallback setting - but i expect
| i would have heard of this problem before if the PATH_INFO is at all
| commonly left out...
| 
| (In any case we may want to fix mailman so the script handle the
| situation better, directing the user to the right place instead of
| faulting.) 
| 
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