urllib redirect

Tue Apr 18 02:18:06 EDT 2000

On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Thomas wrote:

> I've got a pretty tame question.
> 
> I want one of my functions to redirect the URL.  
> (ie I call the script and off I go to www.spam.com)
> 
> So, here's what I get, and have not overcome yet:
> 
> import urllib
> def simpleredirect() :
>     ############
>      print "Content-type: text/html"
>      print urllib.urlopen('http://www.spam.com').read()
> 
> simpleredirect()

You really aren't redirecting but attempting to get the data yourself. If
you just print out the following you can use the browser's own redirection
facility.

Content-type: text/html
<html>
    <head>
        <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.spam.com/">
        <title> redirect page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        If your browser does not support redirection, click
        <a HREF="http://www.spam.com/">here</a> to continue.
    </body>
</html>

Cheers,
Anthony
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