Gabriel Genellina added the comment: This is a server bug. Internet Explorer 6 can't show the page either. The response is malformed; it uses chunked transfer, and RFC2616 section 3.6.1 says "The chunk-size field is a string of hex digits indicating the size of the chunk. The chunked encoding is ended by any chunk whose size is zero[...]"
After the (first and only) chunk of around 63K, should come a 0-length chunk: a line with one or more digits "0" followed by CR+LF. But the server is not sending that last chunk, instead it sends lots of nul bytes, until eventually a CR,LF sequence arrives. Neither IE nor Python can handle that (IE keeps requesting the page again and again). wget is apparently a lot more relaxed and decides that the first chunk is good enough. Perhaps urllib/urllib2 could handle the error and raise a more meaningful exception in this case, but just ignoring the error doesn't appear to be the right thing IMHO. ---------- nosy: +gagenellina __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1205> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
