[Web-SIG] environ["wsgi.input"].read()

[Graham Dumpleton]

On 28/01/2008, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org> wrote:
> Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> > On 26/01/2008, Brian Smith <brian at briansmith.org> wrote:
> > As to your questions about read() with no argument, or with
> > traditional Python file like object default of -1, the only
> > WSGI server/adapter I know of where this will NOT work as one
> > would expect, ie., read remainder of request content, is the
> > CherryPy WSGI adapter.
> >
> > As far as I know it works fine with Apache CGI WSGI adapters,
> > Apache mod_wsgi, plus SCGI, FASTCGI and AJP adapters via
> > flup, as well as with paste WSGI server. Not sure what
> > wsgiref will do though.
>
> It doesn't work on mod_wsgi either. When I tried it, it only returned
> 8000 bytes of the input. That is why I started this thread in the first
> place, actually. If this isn't the behavior you expected, I will file a
> bug with a test case. (Google Code doesn't allow for attachments to bug
> reports too, maybe I will create my own "WSGI testcases" project on
> Google Code to store them all in SVN.)

Whoops, you are right.

Very very early development versions of mod_wsgi would read
everything, but for some reason I changed tack as was experimenting
with read() with no argument returning only what was actually
available at that time, possibly to see how input chunking could work.
Ie., simulating a non blocking read. I thought I had put it back to
read everything. Obviously I completely forgot what I was doing. :-(

Graham