Re: Call for help

David Binger <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 06:06:26 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.quixote.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
quixote.__init__.py imports from publish.py, which imports from  
util.py, which
imports from quixote.html.  This puts the ptl htmltext in the  
quixote.util module.
When the methods of StaticDirectory call htmltext, they get the ptl  
versions,
whether or not the quixote.html namespace has been subsequently modified
to have the qpy versions.

You could work around this particular problem by changing util.py's  
import
to be just from quixote import html, and then adding "html." to the uses
of TemplateIO and htmltext in that module.  There may be other html  
imports,
however, that happen before you hack the quixote.html namespace, and
you might not detect that until some unfortunate time later.

Unless quixote.html commits one way or the other at the time it is  
loaded,
this vulnerability seems likely to persist.