[albatross-users] Albatross development preview 1.2-dev-20040114

[Andrew McNamara]

>This only has an effect in mod_python 3.x, 2.x ignores this and I've
>been unable to come up with a solution for traceback errors to be status
>500 on Apache 1.3.  We are okay atm, because on a live site we'd never
>show that information anyway, and use a traceback.html.  So for now we
>use apache ErrorDocument directives on the live side of things, and even
>has the upshot of having al- tags in the error page, which you can't do
>for traceback.html (which is to be expected).
>
>One small plus is setting req.status in 2.x has zero effect, so need to
>have code to check versions before applying.

I've been testing with mod_python 2.7.10 and apache 1.3.29 - setting
req.status to 500 (for example) is working fine here:

    $ telnet localhost 80
    GET http://localhost/cgi-bin/modpytest/modpytest.py HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
    Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:45:47 GMT
    Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_python/2.7.10 Python/2.3.2 DAV/1.0.3
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    <pre>Template traceback (most recent call last):

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/albatross/app.py", line 283, in run
        self.display_response(ctx)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/albatross/app.py", line 516, in display_response
        func(ctx)
      File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/modpytest/modpytest.py", line 17, in page_display
        ctx.run_template('foo.html')
      File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/albatross/app.py", line 158, in run_template
        templ = self.app.load_template(name)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/albatross/context.py", line 181, in load_template
        raise TemplateLoadError("%s: %s" % (path, e.strerror))
    TemplateLoadError: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/modpytestx/foo.html: No such file or directory
    </pre>Connection closed by foreign host.


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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/