On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Bob Fnord <b...@example.com> wrote: > Both methods give me a 503 error...
As a networking geek, my first thought would be to fire up a tiny little "snoop server" and see what, exactly, the two methods are doing. (Ignore the HTTPS options as they're more complicated to snoop on; you're almost certainly going to see exactly the same on the HTTP.) A snoop server is simply an HTTP server that dumps its requests to stdout or a file, utterly raw. You can write one in Python fairly easily, or use another program; if I'm working on Windows, I'll generally use my own RosMud MUD client, but you'll be able to whip up a cross-platform one in half a page of code in any decent high level language. I recommend you work at the sockets level, rather than using an HTTP library, unless you have one that can emit the entire request, exactly as it came from the client. Once you've found the difference(s) between Lynx and your script, you can see what's causing the 503 (Service Unavailable) error; it may be that you need to authenticate with the proxy. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
