[paramiko] Testing an exception

[jay]

Thanks Todd.  Its interesting that I was connected to an ssh server on port
22.  Nothing non standard about that.  Could this also be a timeout related
exception?  If the remote server is slow to respond?

Jay

On 8/7/07, Todd Whiteman <toddw at activestate.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> You get this exception from connecting to a remote machine on a non-ssh
> port, so when Paramiko tries to read in the relevant SSH information, it
> fails and raises the SSHException you received.
>
> A simple repro example is to try and connect to the ftp port (port 21)
> instead of the SSH port (port 22).
>
> Cheers,
> Todd
>
> jay wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Like to start off saying paramiko is fantastic and has been a huge time
> > saver for me at work.  Thanks for the hard work!
> >
> > I got the following traceback and am unsure what the problem is.
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "ATM.py", line 115, in <module>
> >     t.connect(username=sftpRemoteUser, password=sftpRemotePassword)
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/python251/lib/python2.5/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py",
> > line 931, in connect
> >     self.start_client()
> >   File
> >
> "/usr/local/python251/lib/python2.5/site-packages/paramiko/transport.py",
> > line 398, in start_client
> >     raise e
> > SSHException: Error reading SSH protocol banner
> >
> > I thought my code would catch all exceptions, but apparently not.  This
> > particular problem showed up inside this
> >
> > try:
> > except Exception, e:
> >
> > So, I would like to try and duplicate it, but I'm not even sure what the
> > problem was.  Any suggestions on how to duplicate this problem and make
> > sure the code catches it?  Thanks
> >
> >  Jay
> >
> >
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