Issue 18229: attribute headers of http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler sometimes does not exists (original) (raw)

Created on 2013-06-16 09:59 by joru, last changed 2022-04-11 14:57 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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documentation18229.patch math_foo,2014-04-15 17:58 documentation concerning headers attribute in HTTPBaseRequestHandler review
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msg191264 - (view) Author: Jordan Szubert (joru) Date: 2013-06-16 09:59
it seems that problem is someone connecting to port 8080 with non-http client, could not find warning in documentation ---fragment of `less access.log`------------ 81.172.30.254 - - [16/Jun/2013 11:36:58] "^SBitTorrent protocol^@^@^@^@^@^X^@^Ej 81.172.30.254 - - [16/Jun/2013 11:38:11] "^N<U+008E>^@f¸ãÄòQ;³x<U+0092>b^C^HÄA7 81.172.30.254 - - [16/Jun/2013 11:39:22] "^SBitTorrent protocol^@^@^@^@^@^X^@^Ej 81.172.30.254 - - [16/Jun/2013 11:40:35] "Ã<U+008D>¬0æz<U+0093>zr^D<U+009B>2]WQ Exception happened during processing of request from ('81.172.30.254', 63650) Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 306, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 332, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 345, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 666, in __init__ self.handle() File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 400, in handle self.handle_one_request() File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 380, in handle_one_request if not self.parse_request(): File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 283, in parse_request self.send_error(400, "Bad request version (%r)" % version) File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 428, in send_error self.send_response(code, message) File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 443, in send_response self.log_request(code) File "c:\Users\joru\Dropbox\programowanie\demoniszcze\server\_lowerHTTP.py", line 30, in log_request xff=req.headers.get('X-Forwarded-For') AttributeError: '_HNDL_3' object has no attribute 'headers' # _HNLD_3 derives from http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler
msg199065 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-10-06 10:53
This appears to be a bug in the _lowerHTTP module, which does not ship with Python.
msg199077 - (view) Author: Jordan Szubert (joru) Date: 2013-10-06 14:50
what _lowerHTTP does is try read request header 'X-Forwarded-For', but instance of request handler have attribute headers only if thing that connected to port where server listens happened to send valid enough http request my problem is, documentation does not help write code that would not crash when client sends random bytes instead of expected http request
msg199083 - (view) Author: Jordan Szubert (joru) Date: 2013-10-06 15:39
#minimal server: #!/c/Python33/python.exe from http.server import HTTPServer as S, BaseHTTPRequestHandler as H class HNDL(H): def log_request(req,code): print('header is',req.headers.get('X-Forwarder-For'),', code',code) H.log_request(req) s=S(('',54321),HNDL) s.serve_forever() #non-http client: #!/c/Python33/python.exe import socket,os s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) s.connect(('localhost', 54321)) s.sendall(os.urandom(1024)) buf=s.recv(2048) s.close() print(buf) #running server: $ ./server.py 127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2013 17:33:41] code 400, message Bad HTTP/0.9 request type ('E)\xaeE^2¤\xf2W\x8f\xb3aG') ---------------------------------------- Exception happened during processing of request from ('127.0.0.1', 18234) Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 306, in _handle_request_noblock self.process_request(request, client_address) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 332, in process_request self.finish_request(request, client_address) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 345, in finish_request self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self) File "c:\Python33\lib\socketserver.py", line 666, in __init__ self.handle() File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 400, in handle self.handle_one_request() File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 380, in handle_one_request if not self.parse_request(): File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 311, in parse_request "Bad HTTP/0.9 request type (%r)" % command) File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 428, in send_error self.send_response(code, message) File "c:\Python33\lib\http\server.py", line 443, in send_response self.log_request(code) File "./server.py", line 5, in log_request print('header is',req.headers.get('X-Forwarder-For'),', code',code) AttributeError: 'HNDL' object has no attribute 'headers' ---------------------------------------- #running client: $ ./client.py b'' $
msg199084 - (view) Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) * (Python committer) Date: 2013-10-06 15:43
OK, so I guess it could be documented that the "headers" attribute is not set if the request cannot be parsed as a HTTP request. That's a valid point. By the way, you should really call your "self" argument "self".
msg216349 - (view) Author: Caelyn McAulay (math_foo) Date: 2014-04-15 17:58
Added comment to documentation concerning when the headers attribute gets set. I confirmed that the headers attribute is only ever set in the parse_request method of BaseHTTPRequestHandler and only if the request is successfully parsed as HTTP.
msg216523 - (view) Author: Roundup Robot (python-dev) (Python triager) Date: 2014-04-16 17:56
New changeset 104fab0143e9 by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.4': Address issue 18229 - Explain http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler's .headers attribute further. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/104fab0143e9
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2022-04-11 14:57:46 admin set github: 62429
2014-04-16 17:58:01 orsenthil set status: open -> closedstage: resolvedresolution: fixedversions: + Python 3.5, - Python 2.7, Python 3.3
2014-04-16 17:56:55 python-dev set nosy: + python-devmessages: +
2014-04-15 17:58:44 math_foo set files: + documentation18229.patchnosy: + math_foomessages: + keywords: + patch
2013-10-06 15:43:34 georg.brandl set messages: + versions: + Python 2.7, Python 3.4
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2013-10-06 14:50:40 joru set status: closed -> openresolution: not a bug -> (no value)messages: +
2013-10-06 10:53:42 georg.brandl set status: open -> closednosy: + georg.brandlmessages: + resolution: not a bug
2013-06-16 09:59:21 joru create