[issue25037] ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 16: b'[\r\n'

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

It looks like this is a fault in the server. It does not appear to support Connection: close over HTTP 1.1, which is what Python’s “urllib.request” module uses. I think you will either have to get the server fixed, or work around the problem by using the low level “http.client” module, where you can avoid sending a “Connection: close” header field.

However see also Issue 12849, where various other people (including myself at one stage) have found this “Connection: close” flag triggers various server problems.

HTTP responses from the server with and without the “close” flag:


## HTTP 1.1 without Connection: close → good chunked response ##
POST /dataminer/rest/public/api/markets/dayahead/lmp/daily HTTP/1.1
Host: dataminer.pjm.com
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 80

{"startDate": "2015-07-01", "endDate": "2015-07-01", "pnodelist": [135389795]}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Cache-Control: no-cache
Expires: -1
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Request-UUID: 09513fea-ac35-41ea-bf1b-b69357f42594
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:12:34 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Set-Cookie: dataminer=1923355820.36895.0000; path=/

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[
  {
    "publishDate": "2015-07-01T04:00:00Z",
[. . .]


## HTTP 1.1 with Connection: close → invalid chunked response ##
POST /dataminer/rest/public/api/markets/dayahead/lmp/daily HTTP/1.1
Host: dataminer.pjm.com
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 80

{"startDate": "2015-07-01", "endDate": "2015-07-01", "pnodelist": [135389795]}
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Expires: -1
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-Request-UUID: 0b43546c-d484-47a1-aff3-384f62a94a5a
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 04:13:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close

[
  {
    "publishDate": "2015-07-01T04:00:00Z",
[. . .]

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nosy: +martin.panter
resolution:  -> third party
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> Cannot override 'connection: close' in urllib2 headers
type: crash -> behavior

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