I am using http.client to try to read an xml file from a host. I would use urllib2, but I get a BadStatusLine because there is 3 spaces before the xml header(I can not change that). That is why I am trying this route.
I am stuck now and I keep getting an error (getaddrinfo failed).
Below is my code and below that is the traceback. Can someone advise what I am doing wrong?
FYI the address that works on the browser is http://machineIP:81/command=AB&time=2013-06-02
I have no problem accessing the xml that way.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Code:
import http.client
import datetime
IP = input("Enter the IP: ")
PT = str(81)
F1 = datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=2)
print("Reading File...")
html = http.client.HTTPConnection('http://' + IP , port= PT)
html.request("GET", '/command=AB&time=' + str(F1))
r1 = html.getresponse()
print("Writing to file...")
out = r1.read()
f = open('Files/' + IP + '-' + str(F1) + '.xml', 'wb')
print("Writing to file...")
f.write(out)
f.close()
print("Done.")
Traceback:
C:\Users\Me\Desktop\Coding>python file.py
Enter the IP: *.***.***.***
Reading File...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "file.py", line 10, in <module>
html.request("GET", '/command=AB&time=' + str(F1))
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1049, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1087, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 1045, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 890, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 828, in send
self.connect()
File "C:\Python33\lib\http\client.py", line 806, in connect
self.timeout, self.source_address)
File "C:\Python33\lib\socket.py", line 406, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed