J Porter added the comment: Here is the code (security info removed) and the output. I noticed that the problem is a bit different between 2.6.5 and 2.7.3 (on one the use of authentication is different) so I've included the output for both:
import urllib2 userData="Basic XXXX KEY GOES HERE" emlUrl="https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-vcr/25/27"; emlReq=urllib2.Request(emlUrl) emlReq.add_header('Authorization', userData) emlSock=urllib2.urlopen(emlReq,timeout=60) emlString=emlSock.read() print "Https,authenticated: "+str(len(emlString)) emlReq=urllib2.Request(emlUrl) emlSock=urllib2.urlopen(emlReq,timeout=60) emlString=emlSock.read() print "Https,Not authenticated: "+str(len(emlString)) emlUrl="http://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-vcr/25/27"; emlReq=urllib2.Request(emlUrl) emlReq.add_header('Authorization', userData) emlSock=urllib2.urlopen(emlReq,timeout=60) emlString=emlSock.read() print "Http,authenticated: "+str(len(emlString)) emlReq=urllib2.Request(emlUrl) emlSock=urllib2.urlopen(emlReq,timeout=60) emlString=emlSock.read() lengthHttpsNotAuthenticated=len(emlString) print "Http,authenticated: "+str(len(emlString)) OUTPUT when run on PC using Python 2.6.5 Https,authenticated: 32768 Https,Not authenticated: 32768 Http,authenticated: 40898 Http,authenticated: 40898 OUTPUT when run on Ubuntu Linux (12.4LTS): Https,authenticated: 32768 Https,Not authenticated: 40898 Http,authenticated: 40898 Http,authenticated: 40898 ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17569> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
