Re: [Httplib2-discuss] httplib2 should provide custom exceptions for httplib failures

[Joe G. <jo...@bi...>]

On 12/8/06, Simon Willison <si...@si...> wrote:
> One solution might be for httplib2 to have two request methods - one
> that raises exceptions and one that returns the document with the
> non-200 status code. It would be nice if Python had a standard idiom
> or naming convention for pairs of methods like this, but it's not
> something I've seen anywhere. There might be a good reason for that
> of course.

I'm thinking of at least making this a switch, on by default, that turns
all exceptions into status codes. One of the big reasons for doing do is
getting back information on failures. For example, if the number of re-directs
exceeds the limit the caller may want to see the chain of response
objects when debugging. The best way to accommodate that is to return
a response and not throw an exception.

This would be a Http property like 'follow_all_redirects'.

   Thanks,
   -joe

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