[Distutils] PyPI XMLRPC interface no longer works with Python 2.6
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Tue Jul 8 17:17:05 CEST 2014
On 08.07.2014 17:15, Donald Stufft wrote:
> Uh what? HTTPS works fine on my copy of 2.6? If I recall this problem
> only happens if you use http:// on 2.6.
Ah, sorry. You're right. I had looked at a diff of the module
between 2.6 and 2.7 and saw lots of HTTPS related changes.
With https:// it does work in 2.6 as well.
Thanks. I'll close the bug report a fix the wiki page.
> On Jul 8, 2014, at 11:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>> -----------------
>>> Donald Stufft
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>>
>> --
>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
>> eGenix.com
>>
>> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 08 2014)
>>>>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/
>>>>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/
>>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/
>> ________________________________________________________________________
>> 2014-07-21: EuroPython 2014, Berlin, Germany ... 13 days to go
>>
>> ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::::
>>
>> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48
>> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
>> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
>> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/
>
>
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> Donald Stufft
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
eGenix.com
Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 08 2014)
>>> Python Projects, Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC.Zope/Plone.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/
________________________________________________________________________
2014-07-21: EuroPython 2014, Berlin, Germany ... 13 days to go
::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! ::::::
eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48
D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg
Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611
http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/
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