[New-bugs-announce] [issue39727] cgi.parse() fatally attempts str.decode when handling multipart/form-data

[James Edington]

New submission from James Edington <je0029 at uah.edu>:

It appears that cgi.parse() in Python 3.7.6 [GCC 9.2.1 20190827 (Red Hat 9.2.1-1)] fatally chokes on POST requests with multipart/form-data due to some internal processing still relying on assumptions from when str and bytes were the same object.

I'll attach as the first comment the "try-it-at-home" file to demonstrate this error.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: curlLogs.txt
messages: 362490
nosy: James Edington
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: cgi.parse() fatally attempts str.decode when handling multipart/form-data
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file48902/curlLogs.txt

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