Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Duh, I was doing something else stupid. Thanks but never mind! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
