raise BadStatusLine(line) httplib.BadStatusLine: ''

[lightonphiri]

I do not use Python frequently but it appears the problem I am experiencing might be as a result of a well known issue. I am trying to harvest some content and run into the following error. Are you able to suggest a workaround for this?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/common.py", line 115, in method
return obj(self, **kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/common.py", line 110, in call
return bound_self.handleVerb(self._verb, kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/client.py", line 65, in handleVerb
kw, self.makeRequestErrorHandling(verb=verb, **kw))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/client.py", line 269, in makeRequestErrorHandling
xml = self.makeRequest(**kw)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/client.py", line 316, in makeRequest
return retrieveFromUrlWaiting(request)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyoai-2.4.4-py2.7.egg/oaipmh/client.py", line 343, in retrieveFromUrlWaiting
f = urllib2.urlopen(request)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 400, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 418, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 378, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1207, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1180, in do_open
r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1030, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 407, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 371, in _read_status
raise BadStatusLine(line)
httplib.BadStatusLine: ''