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whoisearth
whoisearth

Reputation: 4170

why does urllib2 return 500?

I'm trying the following - 

import urllib2

page = urllib2.urlopen('http://dviappvmtca01:9001/deploy/?jobname=\blah12345')
print page.getcode()

I can open that site in my browser and with httpfox and I get/see a 404. If I try from python with the script above I get the following dump - 

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\test.py", line 3, in <module>
    page = urllib2.urlopen('http://dviappvmtca01:9001/deploy/?jobname=\blah12345')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 410, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 523, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 448, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\urllib2.py", line 531, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: INTERNAL SERVER ERROR

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2201

Answers (1)

Robᵩ
Robᵩ

Reputation: 168766

urllib2.urlopen returns a 500 because, to quote the standard, "The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request."

The log files of the server might provide information about why the server returned 500.

Upvotes: 2

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