From 8dd3d5b26af16ba0effd884f8268da501d8f7e75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nico Golde <nion@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:12:39 +0000
Subject: use urllib instead of httplib as it takes care of http_proxy by
 itself

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@9011 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42
---
 bin/report-vuln | 28 ++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bin/report-vuln')

diff --git a/bin/report-vuln b/bin/report-vuln
index 08d5e0a7d9..3e495667f4 100755
--- a/bin/report-vuln
+++ b/bin/report-vuln
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # }
 # export http_proxy if you need to use an http proxy to report bugs
 
-import sys, re, httplib, os
+import sys, re, urllib, os
 
 def gen_index(ids):
 	ret = ''
@@ -23,24 +23,16 @@ def gen_index(ids):
 
 	return ret
 
-def do_httpconnect(id):
-	proxy = os.getenv('http_proxy')
-	if proxy:
-		if proxy.lower().startswith('http://'):
-			proxy = proxy.replace('http://', '')
-
-	url = '/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=' + id
-	host = 'cve.mitre.org'
-	if proxy != None:
-		host = proxy
-		url = 'http://cve.mitre.org' + url
-
+def http_get(id):
+	param = urllib.urlencode({'name' : id})
+	resp = ''
 	try:
-		conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
-		conn.request('GET', url)
-		resp = conn.getresponse()
+		f = urllib.urlopen('http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?%s' % param)
+		resp = f.read()
 	except Exception, e:
 		error('on doing HTTP request' + str(e))
+	
+	f.close()
 
 	return resp
 
@@ -50,9 +42,9 @@ def get_cve(id):
 	r = re.compile('.*<th\ colspan=.*>Description<.*')
 	tag = re.compile('.*</?tr>.*')
 	ret = ''
-	resp = do_httpconnect(id)
+	resp = http_get(id)
 
-	for line in resp.read().rsplit('\n'):
+	for line in resp.rsplit('\n'):
 		if r.match(line):
 			desc = True
 			continue
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