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When running urllib2 and getting a BadStatus from an http server, this error is raised:
 File "/var/www/pinax-env/pline/apps/page/models.py", line 303, in render
 content = urllib2.urlopen(self.url,timeout=10).read()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
 return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 389, in open
 response = self._open(req, data)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 407, in _open
 '_open', req)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 367, in _call_chain
 result = func(*args)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1146, in http_open
 return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 1119, in do_open
 r = h.getresponse()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 974, in getresponse
 response.begin()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 391, in begin
 version, status, reason = self._read_status()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 355, in _read_status
 raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine
Because urllib2 doesn't catch it with this:
lines 1116-1120
try:
 h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)
 r = h.getresponse()
except socket.error, err: # XXX what error?
 raise URLError(err)
It is not caught anywhere else and the call blows up unless I make a special exception for all httplib exceptions. The specific url that blew this up is:
http://phoenix.untd.com/oasx/rqst/type=sx/rdb=8203014d740000555355533a415a2d2d2d2d2d2d2d2d2d2d0100001d494a0901000000000000/version=3/origin=uol/isp=et_cau