On Apr 19, 2:39 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I have the following code which send/receive HTTP request/response:
>
> > # where sampleUrl is '127.0.0.1' and
> > # url is 'www.cnn.com'
>
> > h = httplib.HTTP(self.sampleUrl, 8080)
> > h.putrequest('GET', '/sample?url=' + self.url)
> > h.endheaders()
>
> > errcode, errmsg, headers = h.getreply()
>
> > But it never returns from h.getreply().
>
> > I am using python 2.3.4. Can you please tell me what am I missing?
> > I am sure the url is correctly. I try putting this 'http://
> > 127.0.0.1:8080/sample?url=www.cnn.com'and it works.
>
> > Thank you for any help.
>
> >>> h = httplib.HTTP("www.cnn.com", 80)
> >>> h.putrequest('GET', "/")
> >>> h.endheaders()
> >>> c, m, h = h.getreply()
> >>> c
> 200
> >>> m
> 'OK'
> >>> h
> <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x7ff3414c>
> >>> h.getheaders("content-type")
> ['text/html']
>
> The above shows you the basics of using httplib - if your own server
> isn't responding that's probably not the library's fault. What is the
> server? Perhaps its implementation of the HTTP protocol is slightly off,
> but not so far off that browsers can't work with it.
>
> For what it's worth you *do* appear to have formed the calls correctly,
> so something a little more complex is going on here.
>
> You might consider using WireShark (nee Ethereal) to look at the data
> passing across the wire when you use the browser and when you use
> httplib then comparing the data. That won't work on Windows because it
> disobligingly refuses to let you tap into the loopback (127) network.
>
> regards
> Steve
Thanks. I run the same script hits the same server (a tomcat server):
One is on Fedora 5 with python 2.4, this works.
But one is on Red Hat 4 with python 2.3, this one does not work.
Can you please tell me how can I make the script works on RHEL 4
without upgrading it to python 2.3?
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