Why am I getting this error in python ? (httplib)

Question

if theurl.startswith(\"http://\"): theurl = theurl[7:]
    head = theurl[:theurl.find(\'/\')]
    tail = theurl[theurl.find(\'/\'):]
response_code = 0
import httplib         


        

Answer 1

I just found when we get exception httplib.BadStatusLine , is when server goes down and doesn't send any response, so it means web server doesn't even send the http code [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes