fallback for older httplib2

git-svn-id: https://ilk.uvt.nl/svn/trunk/sources/pynlpl@13329 12f355fe-0486-481a-ad91-c297ab22b4e3
w495 · Sep 29, 2011 · 0ccd65f · 0ccd65f
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commit 0ccd65f
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/clients/cornetto.py b/clients/cornetto.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import httplib2                    # version 0.6.0+
 import urlparse                    # renamed to urllib.parse in Python 3.0
 import httplib, urllib, base64
+from sys import stderr 
 #import pickle
 
 printf = lambda x: sys.stdout.write(x+ "\n")
@@ -48,8 +49,12 @@ def connect(self):
         if self.debug:
             printf( "cornettodb/views/remote_open()" )
         # permission denied on cornetto with apache
-    #    http = httplib2.Http( ".cache" )
-        http = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)
+        #    http = httplib2.Http( ".cache" )
+        try:
+            http = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True)
+        except TypeError:
+            print >>stderr, "[CornettoClient] WARNING: Older version of httplib2! Can not disable_ssl_certificate_validation" 
+            http = httplib2.Http() #for older httplib2 
 
         # VU DEBVisDic authentication
         http.add_credentials( self.userid, self.passwd )