[Twisted-web] twisted.web.client and HEAD

Manlio Perillo manlio_perillo at libero.it
Sun Jul 22 16:10:56 EDT 2007


Jean-Paul Calderone ha scritto:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:36:27 +0200, Manlio Perillo 
> <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>> Jean-Paul Calderone ha scritto:
>>> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:44:18 +0200, Manlio Perillo 
>>> <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Twisted 2.4 on Debian Etch.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that twisted.web.client does not handle well HEAD commands.
>>>>
>>>> If I do a getPage(url, method='HEAD') I get an exception:
>>>> twisted.web.client.PartialDownloadError: 200 OK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug or a feature (since web.client is for page retrivial)?
>>>
>>> What would you like it to do?
>>
>> It (getPage) should not raise an exception, but simply return the 
>> empty string.
> 
> That sounds reasonable.  Care to work up a patch?
> 

Ok.
I have found another possible bug.
getPage does not checks that the URI scheme is http.


> Jean-Paul


Regards  Manlio Perillo



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