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python-3.xhttphttps
dorinand
dorinand

Reputation: 1717

ConnectionError when send request to https page with python

I am trying to implement program that determine, if page support tls or not and if it is needed to have prefix www. So I am testing page1.cz and check response status of this objects:

Session().get('http://page1.cz')
<Response [200]>
Session().get('http://www.page1.cz')
<Response [200]>
Session().get('https://page1.cz')
<Response [200]>
Session().get('https://www.page1.cz')
<Response [200]>

It works fine, I know that page1.cz is using https and it is always redirect to https://page1.cz. When I tried page2.cz, I recieved error when testing with https prefix. I receiving this error:

Session().get('http://page2.cz')
<Response [200]>
Session().get('http://www.page2.cz')
<Response [200]>
Session().get('https://page2.cz')
ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='page2.cz', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f75e85f03c8>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))
Session().get('https://www.page2.cz')
ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='www.page2.cz', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: / (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x7f75e85f03c8>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))

I know that second page does not support https but why that error? It should just return code 4xx or am I wrong? What am I doing wrong and how to check if page support http, https and www prefixes?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2672

Answers (1)

abc
abc

Reputation: 11929

The error says that the host refused the connection and an error is raised.

You can handle the exception using a try-except block.

import requests

try:
    req = requests.get(your_website)
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
    print("Connection refused")

Additionally you can set a timeout for the request, e.g., 

req = requests.get(your_website, timeout=1)

Consider for instance the following website http://www.qq.com/ that does not support https.

With your_website being http://www.qq.com/ you would receive a 200 OK, while with your_website being https://www.qq.com/ an exception is raised.

Upvotes: 1

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