[Distutils] PyPI XMLRPC interface no longer works with Python 2.6

[Donald Stufft]

You’re using http:// rather than https:// yea?

On Jul 8, 2014, at 10:49 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> I opened an issue for this:
> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issue/157/pypi-xmlrpc-interface-no-longer-works-with
> 
> On 08.07.2014 16:32, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> I just tried the documented interfaces for PyPI
>> (https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyPIXmlRpc) with Python 2.6 and
>> it fails with an error:
>> 
>>> python pypirpc.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "pypirpc.py", line 7, in <module>
>>    pprint.pprint(client.package_releases('egenix-web-installer-test'))
>>  File "/usr/local/python-2.6-ucs2/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__
>>    return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>>  File "/usr/local/python-2.6-ucs2/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request
>>    verbose=self.__verbose
>>  File "/usr/local/python-2.6-ucs2/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1253, in request
>>    return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
>>  File "/usr/local/python-2.6-ucs2/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1390, in _parse_response
>>    p.close()
>>  File "/usr/local/python-2.6-ucs2/lib/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 604, in close
>>    self._parser.Parse("", 1) # end of data
>> xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: no element found: line 1, column 0
>> 
>> The call works with Python 2.7. It appears that xmlrpclib
>> is not receiving any body data from the server.
>> 
>> The returned data in 2.7 looks completely harmless:
>> 
>> send: "POST /pypi HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: pypi.python.org\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip\r\nUser-Agent:
>> xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1 (by www.pythonware.com)\r\nContent-Type: text/xml\r\nContent-Length:
>> 185\r\n\r\n<?xml
>> version='1.0'?>\n<methodCall>\n<methodName>package_releases</methodName>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><string>egenix-web-installer-test</string></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodCall>\n"
>> reply: 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'
>> header: Server: nginx/1.6.0
>> header: Content-Type: text/xml
>> header: charset: UTF-8
>> header: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
>> header: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>> header: Accept-Ranges: bytes
>> header: Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:19:41 GMT
>> header: Via: 1.1 varnish
>> header: Connection: keep-alive
>> header: X-Served-By: cache-fra1229-FRA
>> header: X-Cache: MISS
>> header: X-Cache-Hits: 0
>> header: X-Timer: S1404829181.210045,VS0,VE325
>> body: "<?xml
>> version='1.0'?>\n<methodResponse>\n<params>\n<param>\n<value><array><data>\n<value><string>0.2.0</string></value>\n</data></array></value>\n</param>\n</params>\n</methodResponse>\n"
>> 
>> Could this be a network error rather than a program one ?
>> 
>> The code in 2.7 does a retry in case of a connection reset or abort,
>> which code in 2.6 and earlier does not apply.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
> 
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