how to check the 'content/type' using urlopen

[Michael Bentley]

On Apr 15, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John wrote:

>
> i have the following code to open a URL address, but can you please
> tell me how can I check the content type of the url response?
>
> Thank you.
>
>   try:
>         req = Request(url, txdata, txheaders)
>         handle = urlopen(req)
>     except IOError, e:
>         print e
>         print 'Failed to open %s' % url
>         return 0;
>
>     else:
>         data = handle.read()

Not absolutely sure about this, but try handle.headers.get('Content- 
Type') before the read.

hth,
Michael
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