Bugs item #954981, was opened at 2004-05-16 23:33 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by birkenfeld You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=954981&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Documentation Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Fixed Priority: 5 Submitted By: Phillip (phillip_) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Error in urllib2 Examples Initial Comment: I'll quote from the urllib2 examples: >>> Here we are sending a data-stream to the stdin of a CGI and reading the data it returns to us: >>> import urllib2 >>> req = urllib2.Request(url='https://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi', ... data='This data is passed to stdin of the CGI') >>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req) ... <<< urllib2 returns: urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error unknown url type: https> (This is the Errormsg in 2.3.3, 2.2.3 is a different syntax but says the same. This is seriously misleading, as it implies that somehow urllib2 can handle https, which it can't in this manner. At least not in the way exampled here. Please correct or delete this example. It would be nice if you could provide a working example for handling https. Examples are a good thing in the whole httplib / urllib / urllib2 area, since it appears somewhat hard to overlook. I'm sorry I can't provide a working version of this example, as I am trying to figure out how to handle https myself. Anyway, it's a documentation bug and needs fixing. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld) Date: 2005-12-27 00:37 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1188172 Added the note Martin suggested in rev. 41824/41825. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2004-06-03 11:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 What operating system are you using? The example works fine for me, when modified to use an actual web server: >>> urllib2.Request("https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php","func=detail&aid=954981&group_id=5470&atid=105470";) <urllib2.Request instance at 0x818bf1c> >>> r=urllib2.Request("https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php","func=detail&aid=954981&group_id=5470&atid=105470";) >>> f=urllib2.urlopen(r) >>> f.read() Can you provide the complete traceback? For https to work, your Python installation must support SSL. For this, import _ssl must succeed. For that to work, OpenSSL must have been used when Python was built. I can add a text to the documentation indicating that the example fails if the Python installation does not support SSL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=954981&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
