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Asked: 2026-05-11T11:54:57+00:00

I have the following code to do a postback to a remote URL: request

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I have the following code to do a postback to a remote URL:

request = urllib2.Request('http://www.example.com', postBackData, { 'User-Agent' : 'My User Agent' })  try:      response = urllib2.urlopen(request) except urllib2.HTTPError, e:     checksLogger.error('HTTPError = ' + str(e.code)) except urllib2.URLError, e:     checksLogger.error('URLError = ' + str(e.reason)) except httplib.HTTPException, e:     checksLogger.error('HTTPException')

The postBackData is created using a dictionary encoded using urllib.urlencode. checksLogger is a logger using logging.

I have had a problem where this code runs when the remote server is down and the code exits (this is on customer servers so I don’t know what the exit stack dump / error is at this time). I’m assuming this is because there is an exception and/or error that is not being handled. So are there any other exceptions that might be triggered that I’m not handling above?

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  1. Add generic exception handler:

    request = urllib2.Request('http://www.example.com', postBackData, { 'User-Agent' : 'My User Agent' })  try:      response = urllib2.urlopen(request) except urllib2.HTTPError, e:     checksLogger.error('HTTPError = ' + str(e.code)) except urllib2.URLError, e:     checksLogger.error('URLError = ' + str(e.reason)) except httplib.HTTPException, e:     checksLogger.error('HTTPException') except Exception:     import traceback     checksLogger.error('generic exception: ' + traceback.format_exc())
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