title: urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
body: <pre><code>  if data.find('!exploits') != -1:
       nick = data.split('!')[ 0 ].replace(':','')
       results = api.exploitdb.search(arg)
       sck.send('PRIVMSG ' + chan + " :" + ' Results found: %s' % results['total'] + '\r\n')
       for exploit in results['matches'][:5]:
                sck.send('PRIVMSG ' + chan + "" + '%s:' % (exploit['description'] + '\r\n')) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This little script searches exploit-db for known exploits, but the script seems not to work when I try to use it within IRC, but its fine when I run it alone, </p>
  
  <p>by alone I mean just this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from shodan import WebAPI
  
  SHODAN_API_KEY = "MY API KEY"
  api = WebAPI(SHODAN_API_KEY)
  
  results = api.exploitdb.search('PHP')
  
  print 'Results found: %s' % results['total']
  for exploit in results['matches'][:5]:
          print '%s:' % (exploit['description'])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>that one works perfect, but I want to use it with IRC </p>
  
  <p>but I get this error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:\Users\Rabia\Documents\scripts\client.py", line 232, in &lt;module&gt;
      results = api.exploitdb.search(arg)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\shodan\api.py", line 63, in search
      return self.parent._request('exploitdb/search', dict(q=query, **kwargs))
    File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\shodan\api.py", line 116, in _request
      data = urlopen(self.base_url + function + '?' + urlencode(params)).read()
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
      return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 397, in open
      response = meth(req, response)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 510, in http_response
      'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 435, in error
      return self._call_chain(*args)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
      result = func(*args)
    File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 518, in http_error_default
      raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
  urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error
  </code></pre>