Continuation after 100 header in httplib

Bob Kline bkline at rksystems.com
Wed May 1 21:11:36 EDT 2002


"Jeremy Hylton" <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> wrote in message
news:b0f083db.0205011308.6618003 at posting.google.com...
> "Bob Kline" <bkline at rksystems.com> wrote in message
news:<ucudihfo3n5v38 at corp.supernews.com>...
> > I'm looking through the docs for the httplib module, and I can't find
any
> > way to get the next set of headers and the message body when the server
> > sends back a status code of 100 ("Continue"). ....
>
> No.  It really seems to be overlooked, and the module author hasn't
> had time to fix it.  I'd be really happy to see someone in the
> community fix this problem, as none of the developers seems to have
> the right combination of expertise and time.

Sure, I'll give it a try.  As far as I can tell from refreshing my memory
with the RFC, all the code needs to do is swallow the headers that accompany
the 100 status code and proceed as if they had never existed, right?  Where
should I send the patch?

Bob





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