The original twisted.web.http.Request class has a requestReceived method
that parses the form body (in the request's .content filehandle) using
the stdlib cgi.parse_multipart() function. parse_multipart() consumes a
lot of memory when handling large file uploads, because it holds the
arguments entirely in RAM. Nevow's subclass of Request uses cgi.FieldStorage
instead, which is much more memory-efficient.
This patch uses a local subclass of Request and a modified copy of the
requestReceived method. It disables the cgi.parse_multipart parsing and
instead relies upon Nevow's use of FieldStorage. Our code must look for
form elements (which come from the body of the POST request) in req.fields,
rather than assuming that they will be copied into req.args (which now
only contains the query arguments that appear in the URL).
As a result, memory usage is no longer inflated by the size of the file
being uploaded in a POST upload request. Note that cgi.FieldStorage uses
temporary files (tempfile.TemporaryFile) to hold the data.
This closes#29.
added unit tests to test various permutations of the rename function, and
some sanity checks on the rename-form function.
also added a guard to prevent '/' in from_/to_name in rename calls.
alongside the 'del' button is now presented a 'rename' button, which takes
the user to a new page, the 't=rename-form' page, which asks ther user for
the new name of the child and ultimately submits a POST request to the dir
for 't=rename' to perform the actual rename i.e. an attach followed by a
delete of children.
the code composing the form providing the 'delete' button in a dir
view was broken in that it tried to put some of the arguments into
the url query, rather than as the form's post args. worse, nevow
was kind enough to escape the querystring making it invalid.
this is likely to induce browsers to do more useful things with the result
than they would when given neither content-type nor filename. (i.e. they
can guess that a .jpg file is an image, even with a bogus content type)
Also include the encoder portion of Bob Ippolito's simplejson-1.7.1 as
allmydata.util.json_encoder . simplejson is distributed under a more liberal
license than Tahoe (looks to be modified BSD), so redistributing it should be ok.
If the error occurs before any data has been sent, we can give a sensible
error message (code 500, stack trace, etc). This will cover most of the error
cases. The ones that aren't covered are when we run out of good peers after
successfully decoding the first segment, either because they go away or
because their shares are corrupt.
Previously, exceptions during a web download caused a hang rather than some
kind of exception or error message. This patch improves the situation by
terminating the HTTP download rather than letting it hang forever. The
behavior still isn't ideal, however, because the error can occur too late to
abort the HTTP request cleanly (i.e. with an error code). In fact, the
Content-Type header and response code have already been set by the time any
download errors have been detected, so the browser is committed to displaying
an image or whatever (thus any error message we put into the stream is
unlikely to be displayed in a meaningful way).
These allow client-side code to conveniently retrieve the IDirectoryNode
instances for both the global shared public root directory, and the per-user
private root directory.
