Help: How to capture invalid web page from urllib?

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Paul Lim wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am a newbie in Python. I hope the guru can advise me on the following
> 
> I am trying to open a web page from command line. If the web page is not
> valid, I hope to capture the exception and print an error message and
> exit.
> 
> What I currently have is as below, but I am certain I used the wrong
> class because I did not managed to capture the exception (if any) raise.
> 
> Could someone teach me how to test the validity of a web page, ie
> whether does it exist, can it be open?
> 
> Sincerely
> Paul
> 
> # If web page is entered, check whether it is a valid web page
>  try:
>     inf = urllib.URLopener.http_error_default(sys.argv[1])
>  except IOError:
>     print "Invalid webpage!"
>     print "Usage : ./webmap.py http://server-name/path-to-document"
>     sys.exit()

Use httplib module instead and examine the value returned by
h.getreply() .
See example at
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/httplib-examples.html