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

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 08.07.2014 17:09, Donald Stufft wrote:
> You’re using http:// rather than https:// yea?

Yes. xmlrpclib in Python 2.6 doesn't understand HTTPS. Support for
it was added in Python 2.7.

> 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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