[2.7] closes bpo-8450: a better error message when http status line isn't received...

When the server has closed the connection before sending a status-line,
the client's error message should have a more descriptive error message

https://bugs.python.org/issue8450

https://bugs.python.org/issue8450

diff --git a/Lib/httplib.py b/Lib/httplib.py
index f3bb22c2b6ffd71d3598eaaf79167062c092998b..60a8fb4e355f89792baca769d538d4e849cb434b 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/httplib.py
+++ b/Lib/httplib.py
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ class HTTPResponse:
         if not line:
             # Presumably, the server closed the connection before
             # sending a valid response.
-            raise BadStatusLine(line)
+            raise BadStatusLine("No status line received - the server has closed the connection")
         try:
             [version, status, reason] = line.split(None, 2)
         except ValueError: