[Community] CSW tests - httplib issue

[Kralidis,Tom [Ontario]]

Thanks for the info.  Committed fix to use urllib2 instead.  Dom
confirms this works.

..Tom
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:community-bounces at lists.gispython.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dominic Lowe
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 June 2009 09:36
> To: community at lists.gispython.org
> Subject: Re: [Community] CSW tests - httplib issue
> 
> >  Could you use urllib to make the post request instead as 
> it picks up 
> > proxy environment variables whereas httplib doesn't do this.
> Sorry, that was supposed to have a question mark on the end! 
> Is there any reason you can't use urllib?
> 
> Cheers
> Dom
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 10 June 2009 14:20:43 Dominic Lowe wrote:
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > I am trying to run your CSW tests but I'm having proxy problems - I 
> > get the following error:
> >
> > File "csw_nlr.txt", line 2, in csw_nlr.txt Failed example:
> >     c = CatalogueServiceWeb('http://geomatics.nlr.nl/excat/csw')
> > Exception raised:
> >     Traceback (most recent call last):
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.5/doctest.py", line 1228, in __run
> >         compileflags, 1) in test.globs
> >       File "<doctest csw_nlr.txt[1]>", line 1, in <module>
> >         c = CatalogueServiceWeb('http://geomatics.nlr.nl/excat/csw')
> >       File "/home/dom/eclipsewkspace/OWSLib/owslib/csw.py", 
> line 77, 
> > in __init__
> >         self.response = util.http_post(self.url, 
> self.request, self.lang)
> >       File 
> "/home/dom/eclipsewkspace/OWSLib/owslib/util.py", line 138, 
> > in http_post
> >         h.endheaders()
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 860, in endheaders
> >         self._send_output()
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 732, in 
> _send_output
> >         self.send(msg)
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 699, in send
> >         self.connect()
> >       File "/usr/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 683, in connect
> >         raise socket.error, msg
> >     error: (111, 'Connection refused')
> >
> >
> > This is because I'm going through a proxy. However I haven't had 
> > problems with urllib. Could you use urllib to make the post request 
> > instead as it picks up proxy environment variables whereas 
> httplib doesn't do this.
> >
> > The python docs say the following about httplib:  "This 
> module defines 
> > classes which implement the client side of the HTTP and HTTPS 
> > protocols. It is normally not used directly - the module 
> urllib uses 
> > it to handle URLs that use HTTP and HTTPS."
> > http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dom
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