PO: SCHEME_RE.search(path): TypeError: expected string or buffer

[Jim B. Glenn]

https://karl.soros.org/po_quarantine/2

[Paul Everitt (paul-agendaless)]

I doubt this is a high priority also.

[Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)]

The two messages in quarantine with this error are both replies to a blog entry whose docid is not in the catalog. More than likely they are replies to a blog entry which was deleted. Arguably, this edge case should be handled more gracefully. A couple of options include:

1) Post the message as a new blog entry instead of as a reply. (Easy)

2) Reject the message, sending a bounce message to the user explaining that the post they are replying to is no longer in the system. (Harder but not too hard.)

You might think of other options as well.

[Chris Rossi (chris-archimedeanco)]

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/karl/osi/3.31-0/src/karl/karl/utilities/mailin.py", line 226, in handle_message self.process_message(message, info, text, attachments) File "/opt/karl/osi/3.31-0/src/karl/karl/utilities/mailin.py", line 245, in process_message item = find_model(self.root, path) File "/opt/karl/osi/3.31-0/eggs/repoze.bfg-1.2-py2.5.egg/repoze/bfg/traversal.py", line 75, in find_model D = traverse(model, path) File "/opt/karl/osi/3.31-0/eggs/repoze.bfg-1.2-py2.5.egg/repoze/bfg/traversal.py", line 276, in traverse request = Request.blank(path) File "/opt/karl/osi/3.31-0/eggs/WebOb-0.9.8.0_osi1-py2.5.egg/webob/request.py", line 943, in blank if SCHEME_RE.search(path): TypeError: expected string or buffer