Abort any existing load before starting a new one

[rails.git] / app / controllers / application_controller.rb

diff --git a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
index 70a635404038efbc04beb0eb8231c85b90db644d..4b2c7082558c22eee5fe0ad4c8532c210744db89 100644 (file)
--- a/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/application_controller.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 
   protect_from_forgery
 
+  before_filter :fetch_body
+
   if STATUS == :database_readonly or STATUS == :database_offline
     def self.cache_sweeper(*sweepers)
     end
@@ -404,7 +406,20 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
       format.all { render :nothing => true, :status => :not_found }
     end
   end
-  
+
+  ##
+  # Unfortunately if a PUT or POST request that has a body fails to
+  # read it then Apache will sometimes fail to return the response it
+  # is given to the client properly, instead erroring:
+  #
+  #   https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44782
+  #
+  # To work round this we call rewind on the body here, which is added
+  # as a filter, to force it to be fetched from Apache into a file.
+  def fetch_body
+    request.body.rewind
+  end
+
 private 
 
   # extract authorisation credentials from headers, returns user = nil if none