[Tutor] Fwd: urllib2.urlopen(url)

[Kent Johnson]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Monika Jisswel <monjissvel at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> can i stop urllib2.urlopen() from  following redirects automatically ?


There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this.  Probably the simplest way
is to create a subclass of  HTTPRedirectHandler that does nothing and build
an opener that uses that.

>
>
> one more question i had in mind, the function urllib2.urlopen.geturl()
> does get me what i want but does it do the download of the page i  was
> redirected to ?  or just downloads the initial page that actually does the
> redirect  ?
>

It gets the page you were redirected to.

If you want  access to the redirect code, see the note about Universal Feed
Parser here:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~kent37/kk/00010.html#e10other-resources<http://personalpages.tds.net/%7Ekent37/kk/00010.html#e10other-resources>

Kent
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