[ python-Bugs-1123695 ] attempting to use urllib2 on some URLs fails starting on 2.4

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Bugs item #1123695, was opened at 2005-02-16 06:06
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Stephan Sokolow (ssokolow)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: attempting to use urllib2 on some URLs fails starting on 2.4

Initial Comment:
The following will work correctly on Python 2.3.3 but fails 
on Python 2.4 
 
Python 2.4 (#1, Dec  4 2004, 01:33:42) 
[GCC 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)] on linux2 
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
information. 
>>> import urllib2 
>>> 
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.fanfiction.net/s/636805/10/').read() 
Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? 
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/socket.py", line 285, in read 
    data = self._sock.recv(recv_size) 
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 456, in read 
    return self._read_chunked(amt) 
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/httplib.py", line 495, in 
_read_chunked 
    chunk_left = int(line, 16) 
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): 

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Comment By: John J Lee (jjlee)
Date: 2006-02-01 20:38

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I can't reproduce this.

1. On what OS did you observe the failure?

2. Anybody have another example that does still trigger the bug?

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Comment By: Wummel (calvin)
Date: 2005-02-16 16:38

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This bug is in httplib.py, and I already submitted patch
900744. I wonder why on Python 2.3 it seems to work though,
it should fail the same way since this bug is also present
in Python 2.3. But it might be some change in urllib2 that
triggers this in Python 2.4 and not in Python 2.3.

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