How do you throw an HTTP error with mod_python

Question

I have a setup where I'm serving simple python pages using the mod_python publisher. At some points I'd like to have the python function raise a standard apache error - for example throwing a 500 error if a required file is missing. How can I throw an apache error from within a mod_python script?

Answer 1

I am not a python expert but from this documentation, it would appear that you can do:

raise apache.SERVER_RETURN, apache.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

Answer 2

I believe it's:

def my_action(req):
  # all the status code constants are defined in the apache module 
  req.status = apache.HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR 
  req.content_type = some_mime_type
  req.write(content)
  raise apache.HTTP_SERVER_RETURN, apache.DONE

raising apache.DONE tells Apache not to write out its own error page.