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Ben Darnell  
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 More options Oct 27 2012, 1:18 pm
From: Ben Darnell <b...@bendarnell.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:17:49 -0700
Local: Sat, Oct 27 2012 1:17 pm
Subject: Re: [tornado] HTTP proxy with Tornado

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Samat Jain <sa...@samat.org> wrote:
> I want to write an HTTP proxy w/ Tornado. Cobbling together something
> together based on the docs and various mailing post lists, I came up with
> (be aware: almost no exception handling or error checking):

> (also at http://bpaste.net/show/jz9SWHr4bddE2mQrAxD8/)

> #!/usr/bin/env python
> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> from __future__ import print_function
> from __future__ import unicode_literals

> import tornado.gen
> import tornado.ioloop
> import tornado.web
> import tornado.curl_httpclient
> import tornado.httpclient

> class ProxyHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
>     @tornado.web.asynchronous
>     @tornado.gen.engine
>     def get(self):
>         url = self.request.uri
>         print('request url: ', url)

>         request = tornado.httpclient.HTTPRequest(
>             url=url,
>             method=self.request.method,
>             body=self.request.body,
>             headers=self.request.headers,
>             allow_ipv6=True,
>             follow_redirects=True),

The tuple is coming from this trailing comma.

-Ben

>         client = tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()

>         response = yield tornado.gen.Task(client.fetch, request)

>         if response.error and not isinstance(response.error,
> tornado.httpclient.HTTPError):
>             self.write("Internal server error:\n" + str(response.error))
>             raise tornado.web.HTTPError(500)
>         else:
>             self.set_status(response.code)
>             for header in ("Date", "Cache-Control", "Server",
> "Content-Type", "Location"):
>                 v = response.headers.get(header)
>                 if v:
>                     self.set_header(header, v)
>             if response.body:
>                 self.write(response.body)
>             self.finish()

> if __name__ == '__main__':

>     app = tornado.web.Application([
>       (r'.*', ProxyHandler),
>     ], debug=True)
>     app.listen(8888)

> tornado.httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient.configure("tornado.curl_httpclient.CurlA syncHTTPClient")
>     tornado.ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()

> Except, it doesn't work! When I point my Web browser at it, I get
> exceptions:

> request url:  http://winswitch.org/dists/quantal/InRelease
> ERROR:root:Uncaught exception GET
> http://winswitch.org/dists/quantal/InRelease (127.0.0.1)
> HTTPRequest(protocol='http', host='winswitch.org', method='GET',
> uri='http://winswitch.org/dists/quantal/InRelease', version='HTTP/1.1',
> remote_ip='127.0.0.1', body='', headers={'Host': 'winswitch.org',
> 'Cache-Control': 'max-age=0', 'Accept': 'text/*', 'User-Agent': 'Debian
> APT-HTTP/1.3 (0.9.7.5ubuntu5)'})
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1000, in
> _stack_context_handle_exception
>     raise_exc_info((type, value, traceback))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/web.py", line 1118, in
> wrapper
>     return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 120, in
> wrapper
>     runner.run()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 343, in run
>     yielded = self.gen.throw(*exc_info)
>   File "tornado-http-proxy.py", line 29, in get
>     response = yield tornado.gen.Task(client.fetch, request)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 366, in run
>     self.yield_point.start(self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/gen.py", line 241, in start
>     self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/curl_httpclient.py", line
> 82, in fetch
>     self._process_queue()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/curl_httpclient.py", line
> 213, in _process_queue
>     curl.info["headers"])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/curl_httpclient.py", line
> 276, in _curl_setup_request
>     curl.setopt(pycurl.URL, utf8(request.url))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/tornado/escape.py", line 168, in
> utf8
>     assert isinstance(value, unicode)
> AssertionError
> ERROR:root:500 GET http://winswitch.org/dists/quantal/InRelease (127.0.0.1)
> 1.31ms

> After debugging this a bit on IRC, there's now a bug:
> https://github.com/facebook/tornado/issues/618 (that unfortunately no one's
> taken a look at yet).

> Am I doing something wrong? Using Tornado 2.3 and Python 2.7.3 on Ubuntu
> 12.10 (but the same happens on Tornado 2.4).


 
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