Henrik Lied wrote: > On Sep 27, 11:56 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Henrik Lied a écrit : >> >> > Hi there! >> >> > I'm using a recipe found on ASPN [1] to upload some data to an >> > external server. >> >> > The request fails, and all I get in response is "No backend servers >> > available". >> >> > So I'm wondering: Is this a known exception-message in httplib, >> >> If it was, you should have a full traceback then. >> >> > or >> > could it be an error in the requested external resource? >> > [1]:http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/146306 >> >> From the recipe's code and the message, looks like you're connecting to >> (or via) a proxy which fails to relay to the real server. > > Hello Bruno, > > The actual reason was quite a bit simpler: The receiving server > required a certain keyword to be first in the request - which I was > not aware of. So now it works - but it's not perfect: > > Is there a way to stream the file content over the connection? The way > it works now, the whole file is loaded into memory, right?
It appears not, as the httplib uses sendall on the underlying socket. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
