You should not be posting JSON strings to the webserver. The 'post_vars' can contain anything that json itself can represent, and it is more efficient. If you do a post of a json string with $.POST it will convert that json string to http variables because that's what you should be doing.
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:53:09 PM UTC-7, Ray (a.k.a. Iceberg) wrote: > > To whom it may concern: > > I tried posting vars in json format, with content-type: application/json > header, to my web2py application. > > When the above test is run on my laptop, i.e. requests are sent directly > to web2py's rocket web server, recent web2py (the 2.5.1-stable) can > successfully decode the payload into request.vars, as expected as mentioned > in https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/9YdxVpuJlA8/ek0zJae5U9YJ > > But when I deploy my application to my production server, the same web2py > 2.5.1-stable can not recognize the payload and the request.vars are always > empty. How come? > > My production server is running a web2py (was 2.4.6, and then manually > overwritten by those files in 2.5.1's web2py_src.zip), behind apache's > mod_wsgi, (which itself is behind a global nginx, but that architecture is > a webfaction convention which I think is not relevent). > > Below is the request full content: > > *POST /examples/simple_examples/status/foo/bar.json HTTP/1.1*content-type: > application/jsonHost: example.comContent-Length:14user-agent: fake > Connection:Keep-Alive > > > {"foo": "bar"} > > > And below is part of the web2py response, showing the request content. You > can see web2py got the correct content type header, but still fail to decode > the json payload in request. > > env: > > > > > > > content_length: > 14 > content_type: > application/json > http_connection: > close > http_forwarded_request_uri: > /examples/simple_examples/status/foo/bar.json > http_host: > sandbox.xxxxxxxx.com > http_http_x_forwarded_proto: > http > http_https: > off > http_user_agent: > fake > http_x_forwarded_for: > 107.23.xxx.xxx > http_x_forwarded_host: > sandbox.xxxxxxxx.com > http_x_forwarded_proto: > http > http_x_forwarded_server: > sandbox.xxxxxxxx.com > http_x_forwarded_ssl: > off > > > post_vars: > > vars: > > wsgi: > environ: > CONTENT_LENGTH: > 14 > CONTENT_TYPE: > application/json > > > > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
