IE 6.0 Accept header makes Paste go boom

[cleverdevil]

We've been getting emails with tracebacks from our application, and we finally tracked down the problem. It looks like IE 6 is sending an Accept header that Paste can't parse. Here is how we can reproduce the issue:

from paste.util.mimeparse import parse_mime_type parse_mime_type('text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2')

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/Paste-1.7.1-py2.5.egg/paste/util/mimeparse.py", line 35, in parse_mime_type (type, subtype) = parts[0].split("/") ValueError?: too many values to unpack

This causes our application (a TurboGears? 2.0 application) to explode in this way for IE 6.0 users in certain cases.

[ianb]

should be fixed in r7735