Question

I got this traceback when trying to upload a file using put_file (source code from example https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start/files#python). What does this error mean? And what is the suitable way to handle it?

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "testDRBX.py", line 30, in <module>
    response = client.put_file('magnum-opus.txt', f)
  File "C:\Users\hicom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\dropbox\cli
ent.py", line 149, in put_file
    return RESTClient.PUT(url, file_obj, headers)
  File "C:\Users\hicom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\dropbox\res
t.py", line 146, in PUT
    return cls.request("PUT", url, body=body, headers=headers, raw_response=raw_
response)
  File "C:\Users\hicom\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\site-packages\dropbox\res
t.py", line 111, in request
    r = conn.getresponse()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1027, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 407, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 371, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine: ''

Answer 1

Problem is in USER-AGENT of HTTP header. It’s ‘OfficialDropboxPythonSDK/1.4’ by default. I changed it in rest.py (row 55) to any other, ‘Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11’ for example.
Ploblem is solved.