Re: httplib/HTTPS Post Problem

Am Montag, den 11.07.2005, 06:29 -0700 schrieb michaelparkin@gmail.com:
> Hi,
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> Sorry to post what might seem like a trivial problem here, but its
> driving me mad!
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> I have a simple https client that uses httplib to post data to a web
> server.
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> When I post over http & https using curl the data is recieved by the
> web server with no problems.

Just a curious guess: Are you behind a proxy? If so, it's a known and
never fixed bug from Python 1.5 times ;)

You might also try to use PyCurl.

Andreas

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> When I post using my python client the headers get there, but the body
> of the message does not.
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> My code is pretty standard and has the format:
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> httplib.HTTPSConnection.debuglevel =3D 1
> connection =3D httplib.HTTPSConnection(host_name, key_file =3D key,
> cert_file =3D cert)
> connection.putrequest("POST", path)
> connection.putheader("Content-Length", str(len(body)))
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> ...(some more headers)...
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> connection.endheaders()
> connection.send(body)
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> response =3D connection.getresponse()
> connection.close()
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> (some code has been removed for clarity)..
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> I can see in the debug messages the body getting sent, but nothing
> arrives at
> the server...
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> I think I would understand whats going on better if I knew how Python
> uses the
> underlying socket - does it
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> a) open the socket, send the header & body together or
> b) send the header, wait, then send the body?
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> I think the answer to this question solve my problem - can anyone help?
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> Thanks.
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> p.s. I'm using Python 2.3.3 [GCC 3.3.3 (SuseLinx)]
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Received on Thu Sep 29 16:56:27 2005