[New-bugs-announce] [issue2151] no way to get http result status from urllib

[paul rubin]

New submission from paul rubin:

I don't see any way in the docs to get the status of an http request, in
particular I want to know whether it's a 404.  It does show up in the
guts of the library so maybe I can extract it somehow, but there should
be a simple documented way.

Also, the urllib doc says the info() method returns a mimetools.Message
instance, but what actually comes back is an httplib.HTTPMessage
instance.  I guess that's a subclass, but it's confusing.  The doc
should describe what actually comes back.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 62613
nosy: phr
severity: normal
status: open
title: no way to get http result status from urllib
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.5

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