[1.5.x] Fixed #5076 -- Properly decode POSTs with non-utf-8 payload encoding

Thanks daniel at blogg.se for the report and Aymeric Augustin for
his assistance on the patch.

Backport of 6de6988f9 from master.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
index 6522620d5f..eaf25ea7a6 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/requests/tests.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import time
@@ -352,6 +353,20 @@ class RequestsTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(Exception, lambda: request.body)
         self.assertEqual(request.POST, {})
 
+    def test_alternate_charset_POST(self):
+        """
+        Test a POST with non-utf-8 payload encoding.
+        """
+        from django.utils.http import urllib_parse
+        payload = FakePayload(urllib_parse.urlencode({'key': 'España'.encode('latin-1')}))
+        request = WSGIRequest({
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': 'POST',
+            'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(payload),
+            'CONTENT_TYPE': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=iso-8859-1',
+            'wsgi.input': payload,
+        })
+        self.assertEqual(request.POST, {'key': ['España']})
+
     def test_body_after_POST_multipart(self):
         """
         Reading body after parsing multipart is not allowed