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Chris_W__13732
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Nimbostratusbetter error handling on pycontrol auth errors?
One thing I've noticed when working with the pycontrol v2 libraries is that if you don't set up your BIGIP object with correct username/password credentials, two things happen:
1. There is a tim...
Marc_ChisinevskNimbostratus
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Hi Chris,
1) This looks similar to a known python bug: "Using an invalid username or password while attempting to authenticate against HTTPS via the urllib2 module resulted in infinite recursion. This behavior has been patched, and urllib2 now attempts authentication a maximum of five times before authentication is considered failed."
(Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649274)
2) This lightweight iControl python lib is easy to use, troubleshoot and allows you to specify a timeout: bit.ly/PAisxi
Hope this helps,
Marc
