fixes a bug making request hang

tracim/tracim/model/data.py

@@ -407,7 +407,13 @@ class Content(DeclarativeBase):
         :return: a list of LinkItem
         """
         links = []
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(self.description if not other_content else other_content)
+
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(
+            self.description if not other_content else other_content,
+            'html.parser'  # Fixes hanging bug - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12618567/problems-running-beautifulsoup4-within-apache-mod-python-django
+        )
+
+
         for link in soup.findAll('a'):
             href = link.get('href')
             label = link.contents
@@ -474,6 +480,10 @@ class Content(DeclarativeBase):
 
         return None
 
+    def description_as_raw_text(self):
+        # 'html.parser' fixes a hanging bug
+        # see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12618567/problems-running-beautifulsoup4-within-apache-mod-python-django
+        return BeautifulSoup(self.description, 'html.parser').text
 
 
 class ContentChecker(object):

tracim/tracim/model/serializers.py

@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ def serialize_content_for_search_result(content: Content, context: Context):
             type = content.type,
 
             content = data_container.description,
-            content_raw = BeautifulSoup(data_container.description).text,
+            content_raw = data_container.description_as_raw_text(),
 
             created = data_container.created,
             label = data_container.label,