On Jun 14, 6:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Jun 14, 5:22 pm, Fernando Rodriguez
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'musing urllib to download pages from a site. How can I detect if a given
> > url is being redirected somewhere else? I want to avoid this, is it
> > possible?
>
> > Thanks in advance!
>
> Try this:
>
> import urllib
> url_opener = urllib.URLopener() # create URLopener
> #You could also work with urllib.FancyURLopener
>
> try:
> data = url_opener.open("http://www.somedomain.com/index.html";) #
> open index.html
> except IOError, error_code:
> if error_code[0] == "http error":
> if error_code[1] == 301:
> #do something here
> if error_code[2] == 302:
> #do something here
>
> I hope that's of some help! I think you may want to delve deeper into
> FancyURLopener...
That last part might better be:
if error_code[1] == 301:
#do something here
elif error_code[1] == 302:
#do something here
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