get-with-headers: don't block indefinitely if the server had an internal error
If the server had an internal error and returned 500, there's nothing
to read, so "response.read()" blocks indefinitely. Only output the
response if there's really a response.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""This does HTTP GET requests given a host:port and path and returns
a subset of the headers plus the body of the result."""
import httplib, sys
try:
import msvcrt, os
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
pass
twice = False
if '--twice' in sys.argv:
sys.argv.remove('--twice')
twice = True
headeronly = False
if '--headeronly' in sys.argv:
sys.argv.remove('--headeronly')
headeronly = True
reasons = {'Not modified': 'Not Modified'} # python 2.4
tag = None
def request(host, path, show):
assert not path.startswith('/'), path
global tag
headers = {}
if tag:
headers['If-None-Match'] = tag
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
conn.request("GET", '/' + path, None, headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
print response.status, reasons.get(response.reason, response.reason)
if show[:1] == ['-']:
show = sorted(h for h, v in response.getheaders()
if h.lower() not in show)
for h in [h.lower() for h in show]:
if response.getheader(h, None) is not None:
print "%s: %s" % (h, response.getheader(h))
if not headeronly:
print
if response.status != 500:
data = response.read()
sys.stdout.write(data)
if twice and response.getheader('ETag', None):
tag = response.getheader('ETag')
return response.status
status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if twice:
status = request(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3:])
if 200 <= status <= 305:
sys.exit(0)
sys.exit(1)