Have you tried using pycurl? That may be an easier way to port over your CURL
code directly. Relatively easy to use, too.
-Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to post what might seem like a trivial problem here, but its
> driving me mad!
>
> I have a simple https client that uses httplib to post data to a web
> server.
>
> When I post over http & https using curl the data is recieved by the
> web server with no problems.
>
> When I post using my python client the headers get there, but the body
> of the message does not.
>
> My code is pretty standard and has the format:
>
>
> httplib.HTTPSConnection.debuglevel = 1
> connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host_name, key_file = key,
> cert_file = cert)
> connection.putrequest("POST", path)
> connection.putheader("Content-Length", str(len(body)))
>
> ...(some more headers)...
>
> connection.endheaders()
> connection.send(body)
>
> response = connection.getresponse()
> connection.close()
>
> (some code has been removed for clarity)..
>
> I can see in the debug messages the body getting sent, but nothing
> arrives at
> the server...
>
> I think I would understand whats going on better if I knew how Python
> uses the
> underlying socket - does it
>
> a) open the socket, send the header & body together or
> b) send the header, wait, then send the body?
>
> I think the answer to this question solve my problem - can anyone help?
>
> Thanks.
>
> p.s. I'm using Python 2.3.3 [GCC 3.3.3 (SuseLinx)]
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