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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:47:53 -0500 (CDT)
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On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Νίκος Γκρ33κ wrote:

> Στις 4/7/2013 6:10 μμ, ο/η MRAB έγραψε:
>> What do you mean "I don't know how to catch the exception with
>> OSError"? You've tried "except socket.gaierror" and "except
>> socket.herror", well just write "except OSError" instead!
>
>
> try:
> 	host = socket.gethostbyaddr( os.environ['REMOTE_ADDR'] )[0]
> except OSError:
> 	host = "UnResolved"
>
> produces also an internal server error.
>
> Are you sure is just except OSError ?
>

Have you ensured that 'REMOTE_ADDR' is actually a key in os.environ? I 
highly recommend using the logging module to help diagnose what the actual 
exception is.

HTH,
-W
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