Thanks Sanders Will give that a go Johan Sent from my iPhone 4
On 31/08/2011, at 23:03, Sander Sweers <sander.swe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 August 2011 14:27, Johan Geldenhuys <jo...@accesstel.com.au> wrote: >> 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. > > Top posting is evil ;-). > >> Focusing on the code below, do you know why it would raise the exception for >> the first >> IP and not for the second? > > Run this and you should see which error is being raise. Do note we > catch urllib2.HTTPError instead of IOError. > > try: > req = urllib2.Request(URL % ips[1]) > handle = urllib2.urlopen(req) > print 'Success' > print handle.getcode() > print handle.headers > except urllib2.HTTPError as e: > print 'Exception caught' > print e > print e.getcode() > print e.hdrs > > 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
