Cannot use API with default urllib

[miracle2k]

>>> from urllib import urlencode; from urllib2 import urlopen; urlopen('http://localhost:8000/api/login', urlencode({'a': 1}))
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error

Strangly, it works using requests:

>>> import requests; requests.post('http://dollhouse:8000/api/login')
<Response [200]>

It turns out that this is because urllib2 only sets this Accpet-Encoding header:

Accept-Encoding: identity

Things look better when I add gzip manually:

>>> import urllib2; headers = { 'Accept' : '*/*', 'Accept-Encoding': 'identity, gzip'}; re = urllib2.Request('http://localhost:8000/api/login', "", headers); urllib2.urlopen(re)
<addinfourl at 41238752 whose fp = <socket._fileobject object at 0x27466d0>>

I should say that I am using pyload as packaged by http://spk.unzureichende.info/ for Synology, using 0.4.9-4.

[stickell]

It works for me with urllib, I haven't tried urllib2

[miracle2k]

This is an example of a HTTP request that returns a 500 error on my PyLoad installation:

POST /api/login HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 3
Host: localhost:8000
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Connection: close
User-Agent: Python-urllib/2.7

 a=1

Note that the error is not related to the dummy POST data.

[stickell]

This code always worked for me:

import json
import urllib

u = 'http://localhost:8000/api/login'
post_data = urllib.urlencode({'username': 'user', 'password': 'pwd'})
rep = urllib.urlopen(u, post_data).read()
SESSION_ID = json.loads(rep)

[miracle2k]

Note that I I'm not looking for a solution, I can get it working by sending HTTP requests that accept a gzipped response. I just wanted to report this as an issue, in case it is one.

If my error is reproducible on a standard PyLoad installation, I think it should be fixed. Otherwise, it might be an issue with the way my PyLoad has been packaged for Synology.

[stickell]

We can't fix it in 0.4.9 because it is frozen, if 0.5 is affacted I'm sure @RaNaN will fix it.

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