webservices==0.7 uses request.raw_post_data

[XaviP]

It seems that webservices==0.7 uses request.raw_post_data, instead of request.body (django>1.6) Here's the error on py3, dj1.11, django-simple-sso==0.13.2:

AttributeError at /server/request-token/
'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'raw_post_data'

Here some explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22368190/django-cant-access-raw-post-data#answer-22368223

[nbxorg]

I've noticed this when directly accessing ^request-token/$

However in webservices/sync.py there's this:

if getattr(request, 'body', None):
    signed_data = request.body
else:
    signed_data = request.raw_post_data

I haven't actually gone through setting the whole thing up yet, but my guess is that the bug is exposed here because a normal workflow would not access that specific uri without a POST and thus the request.body wouldn't be empty.

IMHO this is a bug in webservices and not in simple-sso, it also does not break normal operation, though it is an inconvenience.

update:

it does indeed seem that curl --include https://example.org/identd/request-token/ -X POST -d '...' verifief this is indeed the case.

Fix here: https://github.com/aldryncore/webservices/pull/6

[nijel]

IMHO this error happens only when you do a GET request on the endpoint expecting POST. The easiest workaround would be to wrap provider_for_django with require_POST