On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Tsila Hassine wrote:
> has anybody dealt with a 406 reponse through a urllib.FancyURLopener
> class ? I have a code that downloads images from websites and soemsites
> respond with an 406 which I don't know how to handle
Hi Tsila,
Have you looked at the description of a 406 error?
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
What's going on is that FancyURLOpener doesn't specify the types it can
accept, so by default, the types of things are quite limited.
You'll want to look into the addheader() method of your FancyURLOpener to
reassure the web server that you will accept anything from them, by adding
a permissive Accept: header. For example:
opener.addheader('Accept', '*/*')
should add a 'Accept:' header that eats everything.
But for some reason, it appears that this method isn't documented in the
Standard Library!
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/urlopener-objs.html
does anyone know what's going on there? Documentation on addheader can be
found here:
http://pydoc.org/2.4.1/urllib.html#FancyURLopener-addheader
but the method should really be included in the API docs.
I'll send a ping to the Documentation folks and see if this will be
amended.
Good luck!
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