I'm posting a small self-contained sample that demonstrates the problem. The README.txt file in the attached archive contains complete instructions for configuring and running the sample.

In a nutshell: Experimenting with Aspen/Stephane to serve a Django application. Am able to serve dynamically-generated HTML and static content, but dynamically-generated PDF is not working.

The README file describes how to run the sample using the built-in Django development server (which works) and with apsen/stephane. Everything in aspen works except for the PDF generation.

--gordon

Gordy,

Thanks for this! I've installed your test, and have been able to reproduce the problem. Now let's figure out what it is. :)

chad

Ok, progress: this has to do w/ wsgiserver.py's handling of some HTTP/1.1 feature. If I force the server to use HTTP/1.0 (by setting server.protocol to that in aspen.init) then the PDF loads fine.

Maybe it's the 'chunked' Transfer-Encoding?

Worst-case scenario: let's add an http_version setting to aspen.conf, since this would not be a bad thing to have anyway.

Ok Gordy, I've added an http_version config knob in r184. What I see is that setting this to 1.0 makes the problem go away, so we at least have that workaround. Now I'm going to see if I can actually get to the bottom of this.

Ok, got it! This was the tiniest of bugs in wsgiserver.py. It's fixed in the version from CP 3.0.1, so I upgraded to that in r186.

I initially reported the bug with more detail to Django:

http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3619

Actually, I'm going to leave this open until you confirm the fix, Gordy.

Changed my mind again: closing this now that I've released 0.7.1. Re-open if it's still an issue. Thanks!

Thanks Chad! Sorry for being so slow in getting back to you. I'm going down download 0.7.1 this weekend and try things out.

Thanks Chad! Sorry for being so slow in getting back to you. I'm going down download 0.7.1 this weekend and try things out.

Chad you are a genius! Works perfectly. Thanks for all your hard work. --gordy

Woo-hoo! Thanks again for the report. :^)