Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> Connection reset by peer. > >> > >> An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. > > > >This is not true. > >The server is under my control. Die client has terminated the connection > >(or a router between).
> The odds are still good that something on the server is configured to > not make a clean shutdown of TCP connections (a router should not be > involved as the TCP connection is from client IP to server IP, regardless > of intervening MAC Ethernet routing). The RST is coming from the server. No. The server does not reset the connection. It is the router/firewall. > >How can I trap this within the python program? > >I see no exception. > > It's a socket error > > https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html > """ > > exception socket.error Ok, I have now: try: req = urllib.Request(szurl) req.add_header('User-Agent',useragent) u = urllib.urlopen(req) except urllib.URLError as e: die('cannot get %s - %s' % (szurl,e.reason)) except urllib.HTTPError as e: die('cannot get %s - server reply: %d %s' % (szurl,e.code,e.reason)) except (IOError,httplib.BadStatusLine,httplib.HTTPException): die('cannot get %s - connection reset by router or firewall' % szurl) except socket.error as msg: die('cannot get %s - %s' % (szurl,msg)) -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
