Bloke wrote: > Following my above comment, if my script works with http, then what is > the problem with https, even when I change the ProxyHandler to specify > https?
I believe there is a bug in the https implementations of certain Web services, in particular the Microsoft-ish ones. They are supposed to send a message to close the connection, but fail to do so. Instead, they eventually shut down the connection (without sending a CloseConnection message first). So part of the problem is that your web server, in violation of the protocol, just drops the connection. The other question is why there is a period of inactivity. This, again, may be the result of a misunderstanding in the protocol implementations, of which the first problem is only a side effect (i.e. the server might close the connection because of the inactivity). This typically means that either side is expecting the other one to send a message, but both sides fail to do so. Which one specifically is buggy can only be determined by studying the messages sent back and forth in more detail. As a wild guess: try not to use HTTP/1.1, use HTTP/1.0 instead. To do so, try not using urllib, use httplib directly. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
