SVN: security/cve_reader.py

[megabajt]

Author: megabajt
Date: Thu Apr 26 22:05:25 2012
New Revision: 12561

Modified:
   security/cve_reader.py
Log:
Don't fail when cve.mitre.org website is unavailable


Modified: security/cve_reader.py
==============================================================================
--- security/cve_reader.py	(original)
+++ security/cve_reader.py	Thu Apr 26 22:05:25 2012
@@ -231,13 +231,16 @@
 
 # get cve description
 def getCVEdesc(cveID):
-	html = urllib2.urlopen("http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=%s" % cveID).read()
-	html = pq(html)
-	line = 0
-	for i in html("td"):
-		if line == 55:
-			return "%s<br/><br/>%s<br/><br/>" % (cveID, i.text)
-		line = line + 1
+	try:
+		html = urllib2.urlopen("http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=%s" % cveID).read()
+		html = pq(html)
+		line = 0
+		for i in html("td"):
+			if line == 55:
+				return "%s<br/><br/>%s<br/><br/>" % (cveID, i.text)
+			line = line + 1
+	except urllib2.URLError, e:
+		return ""
 
 
 # returns index (tag position) in the node which is a list