Hi, I've experienced the following behavior with Python3 of which I do not know if it's a bug or not. On two Python3.1 implementations, Python's urllib hangs when encountering a HTTP 301 (Redirect).
The code to reproduce is a one-liner (actually, two-liner), Python from Ubuntu tree: Python 3.1.2 (r312:79147, Apr 15 2010, 15:35:48) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from urllib import request; request.URLopener().open("http://google.de") Also occurs on another Python version (Gentoo): Python 3.1.2 (release31-maint, Jun 9 2010, 23:58:21) [GCC 4.3.4] on linux2 The exchanged HTTP is: GET http://google.de HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: identity Host: google.de User-Agent: Python-urllib/3.1 HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Via: 1.1 IMMPWISA01 Connection: Keep-Alive Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Length: 218 Expires: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:18:40 GMT Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:18:40 GMT Location: http://www.google.de/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: gws Cache-Control: public, max-age=2592000 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block <HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> <TITLE>301 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY> <H1>301 Moved</H1> The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.google.de/">here</A>. </BODY></HTML> Although the content might indicate looping forever, it just hangs with no web traffic whatsoever (the TCP connection stays open, however). When interrupting with Ctrl-C, this is the calltrace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.1/urllib/request.py", line 1454, in open return getattr(self, name)(url) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/urllib/request.py", line 1628, in open_http return self._open_generic_http(http.client.HTTPConnection, url, data) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/urllib/request.py", line 1624, in _open_generic_http response.status, response.reason, response.msg, data) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/urllib/request.py", line 1644, in http_error return self.http_error_default(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers) File "/usr/lib/python3.1/urllib/request.py", line 1648, in http_error_default void = fp.read() File "/usr/lib/python3.1/socket.py", line 214, in readinto return self._sock.recv_into(b) KeyboardInterrupt Can anyone tell me if this is a bug or expected behavior? Regards, Johannes -- >> Wo hattest Du das Beben nochmal GENAU vorhergesagt? > Zumindest nicht öffentlich! Ah, der neueste und bis heute genialste Streich unsere großen Kosmologen: Die Geheim-Vorhersage. - Karl Kaos über Rüdiger Thomas in dsa <hidbv3$om...@speranza.aioe.org> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list