[ python-Bugs-874842 ] httplib fails on Akamai URLs

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Bugs item #874842, was opened at 2004-01-11 06:16
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Leif Hedstrom (zwoop)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: httplib fails on Akamai URLs

Initial Comment:
Using Python 2.3.2 and httplib, reading from Akamai
URLs will always hang at the end of the transacation.
As common as this must be, I couldn't find anything
related to it on any search engines, nor on the bug
list here.

The problem is that Akamai returns an HTTP/1.0
response, with a header like:

   Connection: keep-alive


httplib does not recognize this response properly (the
Connection: header parsing is only done for HTTP/1.1
responses). I'm not sure exactly what the right
solution is, but I'm supplying one alternative solution
that does solve the problem. I'm attaching a diff
against httplib.py.

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>Comment By: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Date: 2004-04-12 15:36

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Can you give a complete program that reproduces this? I've 
tried this:

>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.urlopen("http://www.akamai.com").read()

and it doesn't hang for me. I tried a number of Python 
versions from 2.2 through 2.4a0.

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Comment By: Leif Hedstrom (zwoop)
Date: 2004-01-11 14:37

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Oh, I forgot, this is easiest reproduced by simple
requesting the URL

   http://www.akamai.com/


Fortunately they Akamai their home page as well. :-)

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