Focusing on the code below, do you know why it would raise the exception for the first IP and not for the second?
Thank you Johan Sent from my iPhone 4 On 31/08/2011, at 22:09, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 August 2011 09:46, Johan Geldenhuys <jo...@accesstel.com.au> wrote: >> I am trying to use a very simple piece of code to get the realm from >> different HTTPS URLs. >> >> This realm is essential for successful authentication on the HTTPS session. > > I think you got 2 things mixed up, http authentication and encrypted > http (https). Just having a https url does not mean you need to > authenticate. Take 'https://mail.google.com' as an example. > >> If have to run this for a few different hosts and capture the realm. >> For one host, it works perfectly, but when I try the same code to get the >> next realm, it fails. I suspect that I need to close some type of >> connections or something, but I can't put my finger on it. > <snip> > >> For the next one: >> >>>>> try: >> ... req = urllib2.Request(URL % ips[1]) >> ... handle = urllib2.urlopen(req) >> ... except IOError, e: >> ... print `e` >> ... >>>>> >> >> See, no "e" printed which means that something worked. The exception didn't >> happen and I don't know why...Anybody? > > Yes, when you type the url into your browser. I suspect it does not > ask you to authenticate via http authentication. Therefor no exception > is raised and you never print the headers. > > Greets > Sander > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
