bug in M2Crypto.urllib2 ..

[Michal Wallace]

Hey all,

I've been using the excellent M2Crypto package for its HTTPS
support, and I've discovered a small bug that I'm trying to
track down.

When I hit my own HTTPS pages, everything works just fine. But
when I send a request to another particular server, I'm unable
to read from the url, even though data IS being sent. Here's my
code:

#######################
import M2Crypto.urllib2
import urllib

url = "https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll"

page = M2Crypto.urllib2.urlopen(url)
print page.headers
print "-" * 50
while 1:
    line = page.readline()
    if not line: break
    print line
print "-" * 50
######################

Which produces:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:17:48 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 42
Content:

--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------


If I try page.read(), that doesn't work either...
However, if I step through with the debugger, 
I see:

"Invalid Merchant Login or Account Inactive"

.. 42 characters, which is what I want.
To prove it, I added the following debug code
to M2Crypto.httpslib:

        def getreply(self):
                rep = httplib.HTTP.getreply(self)
                while 1:
                        line = self.file.readline()
                        print "::", line
                        if not line: break
                return rep


and now I get:

:: Invalid Merchant Login or Account Inactive
::
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:26:20 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 42
Content:

--------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------

I've been at this for a couple hours now, and my brain is fried, so
maybe I'm missing something obvious here.. I'm going to try again in a
little while to narrow it down some more, but first I thought I'd ask
if anyone else had run into this problem and had a workaround or a
patch...?

Cheers,

- Michal
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