Python requests.exception.ConnectionError: connection aborted "BadStatusLine"

Question

I am trying to use the Python requests module to issue Http GET commands to access some REST based APIs. The urls are working fine on a RESTClient but when I use the same url in python, I get a connection error.

The code I am trying to execute is:

payload={"mac":new_mac,"token":token} userloginurl="http://192.168.1.40:9119/uid" r=requests.get(userloginurl,params=payload) print(r.url) 

If I test this url using RESTClient, I get a 200 OK status code in the response header along with some more fields. But this is not working with python requests. The traceback of the error is shown below:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "getAPids.py", line 34, in <module> r=requests.get(userloginurl,params=payload)   File "C:\Users\garvitab\python\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 65, in  get return request('get', url, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\garvitab\python\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 49, in request response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File "C:\Users\garvitab\python\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 4 61, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "C:\Users\garvitab\python\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 5 73, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)  File "C:\Users\garvitab\python\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 4 15, in send raise ConnectionError(err, request=request) requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''", )) 

I looked up for the cause of the problem. Possibly, the response received is not formatted correctly. Is there a way to handle this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The problem was with the url. This connection was meant to be established over https and I was using http in the python script. Hence the issue.