diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 907deb0df2..4ba21fe0d9 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Kieran Holland <http://www.kieranholland.com>
     Sung-Jin Hong <serialx.net@gmail.com>
     Leo "hylje" Honkanen <sealage@gmail.com>
+    Tareque Hossain <http://www.codexn.com>
     Richard House <Richard.House@i-logue.com>
     Robert Rock Howard <http://djangomojo.com/>
     John Huddleston <huddlej@wwu.edu>
@@ -402,7 +403,7 @@ answer newbie questions, and generally made Django that much better:
     Vasiliy Stavenko <stavenko@gmail.com>
     Thomas Steinacher <http://www.eggdrop.ch/>
     Johan C. Stöver <johan@nilling.nl>
-    nowell strite
+    Nowell Strite <http://nowell.strite.org/>
     Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@google.com>
     Pascal Varet
     SuperJared
diff --git a/django/core/handlers/modpython.py b/django/core/handlers/modpython.py
index c6dcf23e9a..b1e3e17227 100644
--- a/django/core/handlers/modpython.py
+++ b/django/core/handlers/modpython.py
@@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ class ModPythonRequest(http.HttpRequest):
         if not hasattr(self, '_meta'):
             self._meta = {
                 'AUTH_TYPE':         self._req.ap_auth_type,
-                'CONTENT_LENGTH':    self._req.clength, # This may be wrong
-                'CONTENT_TYPE':      self._req.content_type, # This may be wrong
+                'CONTENT_LENGTH':    self._req.headers_in.get('content-length', 0),
+                'CONTENT_TYPE':      self._req.headers_in.get('content-type'),
                 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1',
                 'PATH_INFO':         self.path_info,
                 'PATH_TRANSLATED':   None, # Not supported