urllib en https

[Cecil Westerhof]

Something went wrong with my last post. So, again:

I have a strange problem. I wrote a script that uses urllib.urlopen to fetch
a page through https. In Python 2.2.2 this works without a problem. But
when I use the script in Python 2.4.1 (which is more recent) I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url , data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 177, in open
    return self.open_unkno wn(fullurl, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 189, in open_unknown
    raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'

What is happening here? And how can I solve this?

[sp1d3rx@gmail.com]

Re: urllib en https

please provide a sample program, which has the minimal functionality
necessary to reproduce this error. I've checked and the syntax hasn't
changed. Perhaps it's with the string you are passing as "fullurl".
Anyways, I can't really troubleshoot more than that without some code.

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

Something went wrong with my last post. So, again:
>
I have a strange problem. I wrote a script that uses urllib.urlopen to fetch
a page through https. In Python 2.2.2 this works without a problem. But
when I use the script in Python 2.4.1 (which is more recent) I get:
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
return opener.open(url , data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 177, in open
return self.open_unkno wn(fullurl, data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 189, in open_unknown
raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'
>
What is happening here? And how can I solve this?

[Cecil Westerhof]

Re: urllib en https

Cecil Westerhof wrote:

Something went wrong with my last post. So, again:
>
I have a strange problem. I wrote a script that uses urllib.urlopen to
fetch a page through https. In Python 2.2.2 this works without a problem.
But when I use the script in Python 2.4.1 (which is more recent) I get:
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 79, in urlopen
return opener.open(url , data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 177, in open
return self.open_unkno wn(fullurl, data)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/urllib.py", line 189, in open_unknown
raise IOError, ('url error', 'unknown url type', type)
IOError: [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'https'

I found the problem. The first Python was compiled with ssl support enabled
and the second without ssl support enabled.

[John J. Lee]

Re: urllib en https

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.net com.comwrites:

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:03:08 +0200, Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl >
declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
>

I found the problem. The first Python was compiled with ssl support enabled
and the second without ssl support enabled.

>
A vision is forming in the crystal ball... I see... ActiveState...
>
As I recall, ActiveState doesn't distribute the SSL package that the
python.org package contains. But... It is possible to copy the SSL
related files from a python.org package into the ActiveState
installation.

Does ActiveState do a unix distribution of Python now?

(The OP seemed to have a Unix-like system -- so probably he didn't
install have the right rpm or whatever installed -- a very common
problem with people trying to use SSL on linux distributions.)


John

[John J. Lee]

Re: urllib en https

jjl@pobox.com (John J. Lee) writes:
[...]

Does ActiveState do a unix distribution of Python now?
>
(The OP seemed to have a Unix-like system -- so probably he didn't
install have the right rpm or whatever installed -- a very common
problem with people trying to use SSL on linux distributions.)
>
>
John

Hmm, so they do (maybe they always did?):

| ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured, ready-to-install
| distribution of Python, available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X,
| Solaris, and Windows. The standard ActivePython distribution is
| available for free download.


Still, I suspect a missing system package is a more likely culprit.


John

[Podi]

Re: urllib en https

As I recall, ActiveState doesn't distribute the SSL package that the
python.org package contains. But... It is possible to copy the SSL
related files from a python.org package into the ActiveState
installation.

>

Are there any instructions on doing this? My Python installation from
cygwin seems to have SSL but not the ActiveState. However, I really
like the ActiveState PythonWin UI.

I would be much appreciated if anyone can provide pointer to get the
SSL in AS Python to work.

Thanks in advance.
P