Issue 25633: The documentation for urllib.request should mention http.client.HTTPException (original) (raw)

Issue25633

Created on 2015-11-16 08:42 by jon orebro, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg254720 - (view)	Author: jon orebro (jon orebro)	Date: 2015-11-16 08:42
The documentation for urllib.request should mention that a robust client using urllib.request must be prepared for exceptions of type http.client.HTTPException in addition to urllib.error.URLError. Example: the server breaks HTTP and returns an empty status line and we get a http.client.BadStatusLine.
msg254762 - (view)	Author: Martin Panter (martin.panter) *	Date: 2015-11-16 22:17
Closely related: Issue 22797 proposes documenting some circumstances where ValueError is raised directly. Perhaps you can review and enhance the patch already there. Also related: Issue 13736 proposes to wrap http.client exceptions (which I disagree with), and add extra wrapping for socket.error (which I may agree with for consistency), and document existing “exception leaks”. Issue 6471 discusses awkwardnesses of getting at the underlying exception that URLError wraps.
msg407400 - (view)	Author: Irit Katriel (iritkatriel) *	Date: 2021-11-30 20:23
Issue22797 was resolved by being more specific about when a URLError is raised, rather than mentioning other exceptions as well. Do we want to do more than that, or can this be closed as well?