Fixes by John Reese and Jacques Frechet that make test_xmlrpc pass.

(Note that test_xmlrpc isn't touched by the fixes!)  There were two
separate issues; (a) BaseHTTPServer was using a TextIOWrapper which
was swallowing some of the POST body; (b) the getheaders() API was
changed but (due to integration of 2.6 code) the code wasn't modified.

Lib/BaseHTTPServer.py

@@ -278,14 +278,21 @@ def parse_request(self):
             return False
         self.command, self.path, self.request_version = command, path, version
 
-        # Examine the headers and look for a Connection directive
+        # Examine the headers and look for a Connection directive.
-        # MessageClass == rfc822 expects ascii, so use a text wrapper.
+
-        text = io.TextIOWrapper(self.rfile)
+        # MessageClass (rfc822) wants to see strings rather than bytes.
-        self.headers = self.MessageClass(text, 0)
+        # But a TextIOWrapper around self.rfile would buffer too many bytes
-        # The text wrapper does buffering (as does self.rfile).  We
+        # from the stream, bytes which we later need to read as bytes.
-        # don't want to leave any data in the buffer of the text
+        # So we read the correct bytes here, as bytes, then use StringIO
-        # wrapper.
+        # to make them look like strings for MessageClass to parse.
-        assert not text.buffer.peek()
+        headers = []
+        while True:
+            line = self.rfile.readline()
+            headers.append(line)
+            if line in (b'\r\n', b'\n', b''):
+                break
+        hfile = io.StringIO(b''.join(headers).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+        self.headers = self.MessageClass(hfile)
 
         conntype = self.headers.get('Connection', "")
         if conntype.lower() == 'close':

Lib/xmlrpclib.py

@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ def request(self, host, handler, request_body, verbose=0):
             raise ProtocolError(
                 host + handler,
                 resp.status, resp.reason,
-                resp.getheaders()
+                dict(resp.getheaders())
                 )
 
         self.verbose = verbose