I got strange upload issues on my app. A simple form with an upload field fails sometimes to upload the file. It works fine on my LAN but fails on the Internet. I focused it down to this reproducible scenario :
I install a clean web2py with an ssl certificate : cd /var wget http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip unzip web2py_src.zip cd /var/web2py/ dd if=/dev/random of=rand.dat bs=1024 count=1 openssl genrsa -out cakey.key -rand rand.dat 2048 openssl req -new -key cakey.key -out cakey.csr -subj '/C=FR/L=Paris/CN=test25656263.test.fr' openssl x509 -req -days 1780 -set_serial 1 -in cakey.csr -signkey cakey.key -out cakey.pem rm -f rand.dat I start web2py in SSL mode : python web2py.py -i 0.0.0.0 -p 443 -c cakey.pem -k cakey.key With the admin interface, I create my test app : New simple application Application name: testupload1 Modify db.py and add : db.define_table('mytable', Field('myfield', 'upload'), ) Go to database administration : [ insert new mytable ] select a small file (50 kb) then submit Then I got : -> "Internal error" Ticket issued ... testupload1/81.56.220.102.2011-01-03.11-26-20.6a65f307-5eb2-4fde-915d- d63516bc574a -> Bad Request Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/web2py/gluon/main.py", line 403, in wsgibase parse_get_post_vars(request, environ) File "/var/web2py/gluon/main.py", line 254, in parse_get_post_vars request.body = copystream_progress(request) ### stores request body File "/var/web2py/gluon/main.py", line 127, in copystream_progress copystream(source, dest, size, chunk_size) File "/var/web2py/gluon/fileutils.py", line 329, in copystream data = src.read(size) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 377, in read data = self._sock.recv(left) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 215, in recv return self.read(buflen) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/ssl.py", line 136, in read return self._sslobj.read(len) SSLError: The read operation timed out Server conf : Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits with latest web2py Client conf : Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.10 32 bits Help would be appreciated.
