What's the matter with docs.python.org?

Wed May 19 12:54:13 EDT 2010

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Christian Mertes
<cmertes at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> by kjon 2010-03-24T16:40:21+00:00.
>> In Philip Semanchuk writes:
>> >On Mar 24, 2010, at 12:05 PM, kj wrote:
>> >> In the last couple of weeks, docs.python.org has been down repeatedly
>> >> (like right now). Has anyone else noticed this?
>> >http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/docs.python.org
>> Very handy. Thanks!
>> ~K
>
> Hey kjon,
>
> I just found your mail in the archives because I've been experiencing the
> same weird problems and I couldn't believe they wouldn't fix their server
> for such a long time. I'd like to know what downforeveryoneorjustme.com does
> because it's so lightning fast. Pinging the server? Works for me. Looking for
> port 80? It's open. Connecting to it and getting a web page? That's where things
> start to get interesting:
>
>> $ telnet docs.python.org 80
>> Trying 2001:888:2000:d::a2...
>> Trying 82.94.164.162...
>> Connected to docs.python.org.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> GET / HTTP/1.0
>>
>>
>>
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> ... after a really long time. The server wouldn't serve me. Opera reports a
> network error right away though, not waiting for a timeout. And the best part:
> Chrome and Firefox just get me the website. Wireshark reveals that both latter
> browsers get a "304 Not Modified" response and then do a lot of weird stuff involving
> DNS as well as HTTP to finally deliver a web page. Opera does no such thing but only
> sends a request to 2001:888:2000:d::a2. Yeah, right, that's an IPv6 address.
> I really don't understand the details of what's going on here but chances are
> that you also use Opera, kjon and those who replied to you didn't?
>
> I reported docs.python.org as a broken page to the Opera devs but I'm also Ccing this
> mail to the server admin because this seems to be a more complex problem than just
> a broken (if at all) web browser.
>
> Best regards,
>
>        Christian
>

Worked for me:

~/isos2burn> telnet docs.python.org 80
Trying 82.94.164.162...
Connected to docs.python.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET/HTTP/1.0
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.python.org">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9
OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_wsgi/2.5 Python/2.5.2 Server at dinsdale.python.org
Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
~/isos2burn> date
Wed May 19 09:49:11 PDT 2010