localhost, ?!

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Boris Ozegovic wrote:

> At job:
> urllib2.urlopen("http://localhost")
> raise BadStatusLine(line), after half a minute.

Looks like name resolving problems.
 
> urllib2.urlopen("http://127.0.0.1")
> HTTP Error 503: Service Unavailable, immediately.

Definitely a problem with the web server (503 means "service
unavailable").
 
> Anybody have slightest clue wthat is going on?  :-/

Try using wireshark or a similar tool to see what's going on on
protocol level.

Regards,


Björn

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