[ python-Bugs-1469498 ] Exception when handling http response

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Bugs item #1469498, was opened at 2006-04-12 20:49
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Richard Kasperski (rkasperski)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Exception when handling http response

Initial Comment:
When handling the return from a web server that dooes
not return the content length(one I wrote) httplib
takes an exception at line 478.

The line of code in question is 
if self.length is not None:

and should probably read
if self.length is not None and self.length != _UNKNOWN:

The problem is that self.length is no longer
initialized to None


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>Comment By: Richard Kasperski (rkasperski)
Date: 2006-04-12 21:43

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Here is the version header from running python at the
command line.
Python 2.4 (#1, Feb  3 2005, 08:52:54

In my httplib.py length is initialized to _UNKNOWN which has
the value "UNKNOWN"

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Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2006-04-12 21:31

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On which version of Python does this occur?

In HEAD, all code paths in begin() lead to self.length being
set to some value or None.

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