Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rob Wolfe wrote: > >> Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> P.S. And something simpler: How can I disallow urllib2 to follow >>> redirections to foreign hosts? >> >> You need to subclass `urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler`, override >> `http_error_301` and `http_error_302` methods and throw >> `urllib2.HTTPError` exception. > > Thanks! I think for my case it's better to override redirect_request > method, and return a Request only in case the redirection goes to the > same site. Just another question, because I can't find in the docs the > meaning of (req, fp, code, msg, hdrs) parameters. To read the URL I > get redirected to (the 'Location:' HTTP header?), should I check the > hdrs parameter or there is a better way?
Well, according to the documentation there is no better way. But I looked into the source code of `urllib2` and it seems that `redirect_request` method takes one more parameter `newurl`, what is probably what you're looking for. ;) Regards, Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
