[issue19057] Sometimes urllib2 raises URLError when trying POST with httpS

2016-09-08 Thread Christian Heimes
Christian Heimes added the comment: I'm closing this ticket. It's old and hasn't seen any activity in almost three years. -- nosy: +christian.heimes resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue19057] Sometimes urllib2 raises URLError when trying POST with httpS

2013-09-20 Thread mrDoctorWho0 .
New submission from mrDoctorWho0 .: Trying to use POST-request to https://vk.com and sometimes library raise an error. File library/vkApi.py, line 31, in post response = self.Opener.open(request) File /usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py, line 404, in open response = self._open(req, data)

[issue19057] Sometimes urllib2 raises URLError when trying POST with httpS

2013-09-20 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: I would guess that if you did a network trace you'd find out there really was a packet that did not arrive (a timeout). Note that detecting this is complicated by the fact that ssl is involved. (I don't know the details, but I remember someone saying that