bug in M2Crypto.urllib2 ..

[Michal Wallace]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Ng Pheng Siong wrote:

> /tmp:$ cat py
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> 
> import M2Crypto.urllib2
> 
> url = 'https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll'
> 
> page = M2Crypto.urllib2.urlopen(url)
> print page.headers
> print '-' * 50
> print page.read()
> print '-' * 50
> 
> /tmp:$ python py
> Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:18:26 GMT
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 42
> Content:
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> Invalid Merchant Login or Account Inactive
> --------------------------------------------------
> /tmp:$

Very strange. I still get:

Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 15:49:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 42
Content:

--------------------------------------------------
None
--------------------------------------------------


... But I found that if I just use M2Crypto.httpslib, it works fine. I
spent quite a bit of time in the debugger and couldn't find a reason
why one would work and not the other. It's got to be something
obscure, but at least I have a work around.

Thanks,

- Michal
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