The “can’t start new thread” error almost certainly due to the fact that you have already have too many threads running within your python process, and due to a resource limit of some kind the request to create a new thread is refused. You should probably look at the number of threads you’re creating; the … Read more
Python 2.x: docs.python.org/2/library/httplib.html: Note: HTTPS support is only available if the socket module was compiled with SSL support. Python 3.x: docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html: Note HTTPS support is only available if Python was compiled with SSL support (through the ssl module). #!/usr/bin/env python import httplib c = httplib.HTTPSConnection(“ccc.de”) c.request(“GET”, “https://stackoverflow.com/”) response = c.getresponse() print response.status, response.reason data = … Read more
It turns out that it’s rather involved. Here’s a monkey-patch while using requests version 1.2.3: Wrapping the _make_request method on HTTPConnectionPool to store the response from socket.getpeername() on the HTTPResponse instance. For me on python 2.7.3, this instance was available on response.raw._original_response. from requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool import HTTPConnectionPool def _make_request(self,conn,method,url,**kwargs): response = self._old_make_request(conn,method,url,**kwargs) sock = getattr(conn,’sock’,False) if … Read more
I think a more reliable way of closing a connection is to tell the sever explicitly to close it in a way compliant with HTTP specification: HTTP/1.1 defines the “close” connection option for the sender to signal that the connection will be closed after completion of the response. For example, Connection: close in either the … Read more
If you really want to handle with HTTP using Python, I highly recommend Requests: HTTP for Humans. The POST quickstart adapted to your question is: >>> import requests >>> r = requests.post(“http://bugs.python.org”, data={‘number’: 12524, ‘type’: ‘issue’, ‘action’: ‘show’}) >>> print(r.status_code, r.reason) 200 OK >>> print(r.text[:300] + ‘…’) <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”> … Read more