After a long debugging session while scripting my webmail,
I believe I have traced the problem to the way httplib sends
POST requests.
I have compared tcpdump listings from Python 2.4.3 and 2.5.0's
httplib (via urllib/urllib2), Perl's LWP::UserAgent 2.033 and
Firefox 2.0. Only Python sends the re
[Fredrik Lundh]
> Haakon Riiser wrote:
>
>> Is this a bug in httplib or the web server?
>
> it could be that they're blocking requests from Python's urllib, of
> course. have you tried overriding the user-agent string ?
Yes, and it doesn't help.
By the
[Fredrik Lundh]
> Haakon Riiser wrote:
>
>> Yes, and it doesn't help.
>
> then the server is mostly likely broken beyond repair.
It's not in my power to upgrade the server, unfortunately.
Guess I'll have to use Perl.
> to see if this really is the probl
[Steve Holden]
> It really does seem quite bizarre that a server should respond
> differently to the same TCP request when it is split differently into IP
> datagrams.
>
> There really is nothing wrong (from a standards point of view) with
> sending FIN with your last data segment. FIN means "I
