httplib raises ValueError reading chunked content

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Mar 8, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Etienne Desautels wrote:

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> Hi Philip,
>
>> Hi all,
>> Has anyone ever seen Python 2.4.1's httplib choke when reading chunked
>> content?
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> Yes, it's a know bug. See for yourself:
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? 
> func=detail&atid=305470&aid=900744&group_id=5470

Merci beaucoup Etienne, I don't know why I couldn't find that in the  
bug list. I will have to work on my searching skills.

Cheers
Philip



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> Etienne
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>> I'm using it via urrlib2, and I ran into a particular server
>> that returns something that httplib doesn't expect. Specifically, in
>> the code below where the error occurs, line == ''.
>>
>> Python 2.4.1 (#2, Oct 12 2005, 01:36:32)
>> [GCC 3.4.4 [FreeBSD] 20050518] on freebsd6
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>> import urllib2
>>>>> req = urllib2.Request("http://www.mistyshaven.com/")
>>>>> f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
>>>>> content = f.read()
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 285, in read
>>     data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 456, in read
>>     return self._read_chunked(amt)
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 495, in
>> _read_chunked
>>     chunk_left = int(line, 16)
>> ValueError: invalid literal for int():
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