While hacking together a client for Imbo in python, I weren’t able to read the response from a connection initiated with httplib. If the request errored out (http response code 400/403/404) everything worked as it should, but if the response code were 200 / 201, the response read from the httplib connection was empty (read by using getresponse()).
Turns out the issue was related to calling close on the connection before reading the response. This apparently works if there’s an error (which means that the response should be rather small), but not if there’s a regular “OK” response from the server (it’s not enough just retrieving the HTTPResponse object, you have to call read() on it before closing the connection).
connection.request(method, path, data)
data = connection.getresponse().read()
connection.close()
(Compared to the previous solution which retrieve the HTTPResponse object, closed the connection and then read the response)