http error 301 for urlopen

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:30:23 -0600
Wenhuan Yu <yuwenhuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried to open a link with urlopen:
> 
> import urllib2
> alink = "
> http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ff074d9e3895247a31e8e5efa5253183"
> f = urllib2.urlopen(alink)
> print f.read()
> 
> and got the followinig error:
> 
> urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 301: The HTTP server returned a redirect error
> that would lead to an infinite loop.
> The last 30x error message was:
> Moved Permanently
> 
> I can open the link in browser. Any way to get solve this? Thanks.

I checked with my tools and was told that it redirects more than five
times.  Maybe it's not infinite but too many for urlopen.  Or, maybe
the browser just ignores the extra redirects and the part of the page
with the redirects isn't critical for viewing it.  I think that you are
going to have to investigate the HTML manually and follow all the
individual links to find the problem.  You may have to put in a bug
request with the New York Times.  Good luck with that.

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