Chris,
Thanks for your response -- much appreciated.
Please see my remarks embedded below.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Angelico" <ros...@gmail.com>
To: "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apet...@aspetrie.net>
Cc: <python-list@python.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: pip install mitmproxy - fails on watchdog-0.8.3.tar.gz with
"Permission denied" error (Python 2.7.11 on Win XP SP3);
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:40 AM, Steve Petrie, P.Eng.
<apet...@aspetrie.net> wrote:
In both failure cases, it looks to me like there is a bug in the pip
logic,
that is using a *nix forward slash "/" instead of a double backslash
"\\"
before the file name "make.bat".
I'm not sure what your exact problem is, but I can say that it isn't
this; the Unix-style forward slash is perfectly legal under Windows
(and it's even legal to mix and match).
ChrisA
I never knew that the forward slash is legal under Windows -- thanks for
the tip :)
After further research, I got mitmproxy installed under Windows XP. Now
mitmdump starts ok (with one "warning").
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In case other Windows XP "orphans" want to use mitmdump, here's what I
learned (via Google):
1. There was a bug in pip-8.0.0 (bug fixed recently in pip-8.0.2) that
caused the "Permission denied" error:
I did another upgrade of pip, and this time the upgrade installed
pip-8.0.2 (instead of pip-8.0.0).
And pip-8.0.2 successfully installed mitmproxy.
2. But then mitmdump wouldn't start (can't use mitmproxy under
Windows -- there's no GUI port):
C:\Documents and Settings\SteveP>mitmdump --help
failed to create process.
This "failed to create process" problem, was caused by whitespace, in
the pathname to the python directory, in the bang line in file
mitmdump-script.py:
I changed the bang line (wrapping the pathname in double quotes) in file
mitmdump-script.py:
from: #!e:\a p p s\python27\python.exe
to: #!"e:\a p p s\python27\python.exe"
and now mitmdump starts ok with one warning:
C:\Documents and Settings\SteveP>mitmdump --help
e:\a p p
s\python27\lib\site-packages\watchdog\observers\__init__.py:89:
UserWarning: Failed to import read_directory_changes. Fall back to
polling.
warnings.warn("Failed to import read_directory_changes. Fall back
to polling.")
usage: mitmdump-script.py [options] [filter]
...
I tried to fix the warning, but so far no success (due to my Python
ignorance).
However, mitmdump does start (with the same warning) and it creates an
empty output file:
C:\Documents and Settings\SteveP>mitmdump -w mitmdump_20160123.txt
e:\a p p
s\python27\lib\site-packages\watchdog\observers\__init__.py:89:
UserWarning: Failed to import read_directory_changes. Fall back to
polling.
warnings.warn("Failed to import read_directory_changes. Fall back
to polling.")
I haven't yet got mitmdump to actually write anything to the output
file, but I expect that's just a matter of studying the mitmdump docs.
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Thanks again for the response.
Best Regards,
Steve
P.S. Be assured -- I will soon be moving away from Windows XP to a new
computer running Debian Linux.
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