Now that StreamRequestHandler defaults rfile to buffered, make it

unbuffered (by setting the class variable rbufsize to 0), because we
(may) need to pass the file descriptor to the subprocess running the
CGI script positioned after the headers.

diff --git a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
index fa30cbdddae25c732b5c196ce4ac1592f947b2a4..6a259a32daafc67b08a014f52702307375c5a3df 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
+++ b/Lib/CGIHTTPServer.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ class CGIHTTPRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
 
     """
 
+    # Make rfile unbuffered -- we need to read one line and then pass
+    # the rest to a subprocess, so we can't use buffered input.
+    rbufsize = 0
+
     def do_POST(self):
         """Serve a POST request.