WSGI handler not updating status code

[elliottwilliams]

I've been having trouble getting my wsgi application (in this case, Django) to change the status code of the Apache response, and I think it might due to a bug with mod_python. I wrote a simple wsgi handler to confirm: no matter what status string is passed into start_response, the status remains unchanged from '200 OK'.

I got an inspection of the mp_request object being used by the handler, right after start_response is called. Note that status_line is changed but status isn't. Poking around in requestobject.c, I noticed only status_line is updated, I wonder if this has anything to do with it?

I was able to fix this for myself by hacking the WSGI handler to manually adjust req.status property:

# in wsgi.py, line 67...

## Run the app

response = None
try:
    response = app(env, req.wsgi_start_response)
    req.status = int(req.status_line.split(' ', 1)[0])        # added this
    [req.write(token) for token in response]

Version info: Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_python/3.5.0- Python/2.7.7

Take a look at this and see if you can replicate it. Maybe it's just a weird quirk of the somewhat-legacy configuration of the university server I'm on.