[DRE-maint] Bug#689038: camping: Does not support HTTP POST

[Paul van Tilburg]

Package: camping
Version: 2.1.498-3
Severity: grave
Tags: patch upstream
Justification: renders package unusable

Hi,

Currently, it is not possible in Debian to use the Camping framework to
write/create an application that supports HTTP POST next to GET nor to
use/run Camping webapps that use POST.
This only holds when using Camping server and not other deployment methods. 
However, it is obviously a must for it to work during development.

The problem is caused by the fact that the Rack::File middleware, used for
serving static files, is chained before the app and this middleware
logically doesn't support POST and throws a HTTP 405 error which is
subsequently not handled.

The patch attached ensures that HTTP 405 is ignored and the POST request is
propagated to the Camping app.

Cheers,
Paul

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages camping depends on:
ii  ruby                          4.9
ii  ruby-rack                     1.4.1-2
ii  ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter]    1.8.7.358-4
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.194-1

Versions of packages camping recommends:
ii  ruby-activerecord-2.3  2.3.14-2
ii  ruby-mab               0.0.1+git20120515.30414e4-2
ii  ruby-sqlite3           1.3.6-2
ii  ruby-tilt              1.3.3-2

Versions of packages camping suggests:
ii  thin  1.3.1-3

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