From e01795dac74cd31bd6054e3185c2dba6203690ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Watkins Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:33:23 +0000 Subject: Add explanatory comment. --- cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py b/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py index 0377d940..5eda10a5 100644 --- a/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py +++ b/cloudinit/sources/DataSourceCloudStack.py @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ class DataSourceCloudStack(sources.DataSource): def get_password(self): def _do_request(req_string): + # We have to provide a valid HTTP request, but a valid HTTP + # response is not returned. This means that getresponse() chokes, + # so we use the socket directly to read off the password. conn = http_client.HTTPConnection(self.vr_addr, 8080) conn.request('GET', '', headers={'DomU_Request': req_string}) output = conn.sock.recv(1024).decode('utf-8').strip() -- cgit v1.2.3