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_unknown(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]

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]

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_unknown(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.

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

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.
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[John J. Lee]

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]

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]

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