Subclass HTTPConnection and implement your own send()? On 4/25/07, Bart Whiteley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an issue with the following code in > httplib.HTTPConnection.send(): > > # send the data to the server. if we get a broken pipe, > # then close the socket. we want to reconnect when > # somebody tries to send again. > # > # NOTE: we DO propagate the error, though, because we > # cannot simply ignore the error... the caller will > # know if they can retry. > if self.debuglevel > 0: > print "send:", repr(str) > try: > self.sock.sendall(str) > except socket.error, v: > if v[0] == 32: # Broken pipe > self.close() > raise > > I'm sending a POST request, with a somewhat large (3K) request body. > The server requires authentication. If the request doesn't have the > proper credentials, the server immediately sends a 401 response with an > authentication challenge, and closes the connection without reading the > request body. The server does this to protect against DoS attacks. > When the client continues sending after the server closes the socket, > the server sends a TCP reset, and the client usually gets a socket error > of 104 (connection reset), but sometimes gets an error of 32 (broken > pipe) instead. When I get a 104, I'm able to call getresponse(), and > read the 401 response. Then I can retry the request with an appropriate > response to the authentication challenge. When I get a socket error of > 32, getresponse() throws an exception, so I don't have an authentication > challenge to respond to. > > If I remove the "try:... except:" code above, so that self.close() does > not get called on a broken pipe error, the http client code works > nicely. In spite of the broken pipe, I can retrieve the response, and > can retry the request with an appropriate authentication header. > > Is anyone aware of a way to work around this problem? > > _______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/sidnei%40enfoldsystems.com >
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