HTTPResponse.read() returns an empty string?

[Christoph Söllner]

Hi again,

my Source:
"""
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.python.org');
conn.request("GET", "/index.html");
answ = conn.getresponse();
print answ.status, answ.reason

200 OK conn.close();
print "Start"; Start print answ.read(); print len(answ.read()); 0 print "End"; End

And the header states a content length of 11kBytes. What am I doin wrong?

Thanks again,
Chris

[Christoph Söllner]

ok got it:
One cannot close the connection before reading the answer.
Seems that in my original source the new assigned variable
'answ' is destroyed or emptied with the connection.close()
command; very strange behaviour.

"""
import httplib
conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('www.python.org');
conn.request("GET", "/index.html");
answ = conn.getresponse();
print answ.status, answ.reason

200 OK conn.close();
print "Start"; Start print answ.read(); print len(answ.read()); 0

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <dj**********@wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de>, Christoph Söllner wrote:

ok got it:
One cannot close the connection before reading the answer.
Yep, because the "answer" is read over the connection.
Seems that in my original source the new assigned variable
'answ' is destroyed or emptied with the connection.close()
command; very strange behaviour.

No, it's not emptied or destroyed. The read() method reads the content
over the connection. That doesn't work if the connection is closed. It's
like closing a file and then reading from it.

The response object contains just the headers. So you can inspect them
before you decide to download the actual content.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch