Why am I getting httplib.BadStatusLine in python?
http, python
Solution
From the documentation for httplib (Python 2) (called http.client in Python 3):
exception `httplib.``BadStatusLine`: (exception `http.client.``BadStatusLine`:)
A subclass of `HTTPException`.
Raised if a server responds with an HTTP status code that we don’t understand.
I ran the same code and did not receive an error:
>>> theurl = 'http://www.garageband.com/mp3cat/.UZCKbS6N4qk/01_Saraenglish.mp3'
>>> if theurl.startswith("http://"):
... theurl = theurl[7:]
... head = theurl[:theurl.find('/')]
... tail = theurl[theurl.find('/'):]
...
>>> head
'www.garageband.com'
>>> tail
'/mp3cat/.UZCKbS6N4qk/01_Saraenglish.mp3'
>>> response_code = 0
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(head)
>>> conn.request("HEAD", tail)
>>> res = conn.getresponse()
>>> res.status
302
>>> response_code = int(res.status)
I guess just double-check everything and try again?
Problem
``` if theurl.startswith("http://"): theurl = theurl[7:] head = theurl[:theurl.find('/')] tail = theurl[theurl.find('/'):] response_code = 0 import httplib conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(head) conn.request("HEAD",tail) res = conn.getresponse() response_code = int(res.status) http://www.garageband.com/mp3cat/.UZCKbS6N4qk/01_Saraenglish.mp3 Traceback (most recent call last): File "check_data_404.py", line 51, in <module> run() File "check_data_404.py", line 35, in run res = conn.getresponse() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 950, in getresponse response.begin() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 390, in begin version, status, reason = self._read_status() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 354, in _read_status raise BadStatusLine(line) httplib.BadStatusLine ``` Does anyone know what "Bad Status Line" is? Edit: I tried this for many servers, and many URL's and I still get this error?