From 10451509f1ffd096cad16ff56199b599645c7c9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jannes=20H=C3=B6ke?= <jhoeke@uni-bremen.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 19:15:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix for issue #79

---
 telegram/utils/request.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/telegram/utils/request.py b/telegram/utils/request.py
index 87ccccc4c..430d98482 100644
--- a/telegram/utils/request.py
+++ b/telegram/utils/request.py
@@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ def post(url,
         if error.getcode() == 502:
             raise TelegramError('Bad Gateway')
 
-        message = _parse(error.read())
+        try:
+            message = _parse(error.read())
+        except ValueError:
+            message = 'Unknown HTTPError'
+
         raise TelegramError(message)
     except (SSLError, socket.timeout) as error:
         if "operation timed out" in str(error):