Error: httplib.py in_read_status raise BadStatusLine(line) BadStatusLine on ubuntu

Question

I am scraping a site using selenium in python, I get the desired results when I run the same script on windows, but in ubuntu 16.04 when I run the same script it throws error:

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 402, in_read_status
  raise BadStatusLine(line)
BadStatusLine: ''

can anyone give me an idea why is this error raised?

Thanks :)

Answer 1

This error message...

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 402, in_read_status raise BadStatusLine(line) BadStatusLine

...implies that the BadStatusLine was raised as the server responded with a HTTP status code that we don’t understand.

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httplib.BadStatusLine

exception httplib.BadStatusLine is defined in Python2.x - httplib / Python3.x - http.client module and is subclass of HTTPException which is raised if a server responds with a HTTP status code that we don’t understand.

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Reasons and Solutions

There can be many reason behind seeing the httplib.BadStatusLine exception. As per Why am I getting this error in python ? (httplib) some of the pottential reasons and solutions are:

• You may be trying to use http:// instead of https://
• The URL string may be containing a trailing newline character. So make sure that your URL are stripped of any leading or trailing special characters.
• The Web Server may be down and Not Responding.
• The Server may be closing the connection before sending a valid response.
• Presence of Content-Length within the http header can also create this exception.
• If the time interval between two requests are more than he configured time of Keep-Alive timeout=n.
• An easy solution would be to establish a new connection through conn.connect() before sending each request.