i've never used HTTP lib before, and i found "This module defines classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. It is normally not used directly — the module urllib<http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html#module-urllib>uses it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS." here http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
perhaps give urllib or urllib2 a try - i use those all the time with great success! cfh On Friday, July 6, 2012 10:30:34 AM UTC-7, Adi wrote: > > > Could anyone please advise if I'm doing this correctly? I'm trying to post > a request to Paymentech gateway. When I try the link in a browser, it > responds fine (https://orbitalvar1.paymentech.net/authorize:443), but > using post as bellow returns an error. Most likely I'm doing something > wrong, but can't figure out what. > > Thanks, > Adnan > > > *CODE:* > import sys, httplib > > request = xml_string # "proper xml request..." > > HOST = "https://orbitalvar1.paymentech.net/authorize:443"; > # tried without https as well: HOST = " > orbitalvar1.paymentech.net/authorize:443" > webservice = httplib.HTTPS(HOST) > webservice.putrequest("POST", '') > webservice.putheader("Host", HOST) > webservice.putheader("User-Agent","Python post") > webservice.putheader("Content-Type", "application/PTI46") > webservice.putheader("Content-transfer-encoding", "text") > webservice.putheader("Content-length", "%d" % len(request)) > webservice.endheaders() > webservice.send(request) > statuscode, statusmessage, header = webservice.getreply() > print statuscode, statusmessage, header > > *TRACEBACK:* > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch8/gluon/restricted.py", line 205, in > restricted > exec ccode in environment > File > "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch8/applications/dev_thanemobile/controllers/default.py", > > line 898, in <module> > File "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch8/gluon/globals.py", line 173, in > <lambda> > self._caller = lambda f: f() > File > "/Users/adnan/web2py-dev-branch8/applications/dev_thanemobile/controllers/default.py", > > line 43, in test_pmt > paymentech.do_request(xml_string) > File "applications/dev_thanemobile/modules/paymentech.py", line 46, in > do_request > webservice.endheaders() > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", > > line 937, in endheaders > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", > > line 797, in _send_output > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", > > line 759, in send > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", > > line 1140, in connect > File > "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", > > line 553, in create_connection > *gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known* > >
