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authorMark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>2013-04-06 22:54:18 -0700
committerMark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>2013-04-06 22:54:18 -0700
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Defended against buggy web servers that don't include an empty
QUERY_STRING in the CGI environment. (LP: 1160647)
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diff --git a/scripts/driver b/scripts/driver
index a0b6b8c6..67ff0fdf 100644
--- a/scripts/driver
+++ b/scripts/driver
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# -*- python -*-
-# Copyright (C) 1998-2010 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998-2013 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ def run_main():
# Mailman.Cgi package. That module must have a main() function, which
# we dig out and call.
scriptname = sys.argv[1]
+ # Then we truncate sys.argv because buggy web servers have been
+ # observed which do not provide an empty QUERY_STRING in the
+ # environment which causes cgi.FieldStorage() to add sys.argv[1:] to
+ # the constructed instance.
+ del sys.argv[1:]
# See the reference manual for why we have to do things this way.
# Note that importing should have no side-effects!
pkg = __import__('Mailman.Cgi', globals(), locals(), [scriptname])