[New-bugs-announce] [issue12398] Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions

[sorin]

New submission from sorin <sorin.sbarnea at gmail.com>:

It looks that Python 2.7 changes did induce some important bugs into httplib due to to implicit str-unicode encoding/decoding.

One clear example is that PyAMF library doesn't work with Python 2.7 because it is not able to generate binary data POST responses.

Please check http://dev.pyamf.org/ticket/823

(partial trackback, full in above bug)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 937, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 795, in _send_output
    msg += message_body

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messages: 138953
nosy: sorin
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Sending binary data with a POST request in httplib can cause Unicode exceptions
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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