Haakon Riiser wrote: > Yes, and it doesn't help.
then the server is mostly likely broken beyond repair. > By the way, this is the closest thing I've found in the bug tracker: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=547093&group_id=5470 > The bug was closed in 2002 with this comment: > > "I changed httplib to send requests as a single packet in rev > 1.60. The change was made to address a performance problem, > but happens to fix the problem you had with the bogus > server, too." > > Has someone changed it back since then? nope; that change buffers the *header* part of the request to avoid problems with certain TCP/IP mechanisms; see http://svn.python.org/view?rev=27644&view=rev for a discussion. note that there's still no guarantee that the entire header is sent in a single TCP packet. to see if this really is the problem, you could try moving the call to self._send_output() from the end of the endheaders() method to the end of the _send_request() method (around line 870 in httplib.py, at least in 2.5). </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
