BadStatusLine:

[Diez B. Roggisch]

noelob wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> During performance testing of my web application, I occasionally get a
> BadStatusLine exception from httplib. Reading
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-httplib.html#l2h-4021 tells me that
> it's "Raised if a server responds with a HTTP status code that we
> don't understand." Is there a way to find what the actual status code
> returned was? I.e. the value that caused the exception to be thrown?
> Under what circumstances is a BadStatusLine normally thrown? (e.g.
> data corruption?)
> 
> I'm quite new to python, but not to programming. Apologies if this is
> a silly question ;)

Bruno gave some advice already. I can only add that for the general task of
inspecting HTTP-traffic, tools such as axis-tcpmon or wireshark are useful.
There you can see what happens on the protocol level.

Diez