[Tutor] Strategy to read a redirecting html page

[Karim]

On 06/01/2011 01:41 AM, Alexandre Conrad wrote:
> Hi Karim,
>
> When you hit the page and you get an HTTP redirect code back (say,
> 302), you will need to make another call to the URL specified in the
> "Location" parameter in the response headers. Then you retrieve that
> new page and you can check you got an acceptable HTTP response code
> (such as 200) and read the page's body (or whatever you want to do
> with it). Otherwise, keep looping until you get an expected HTTP
> response code.
>
> Note: you may get stuck in an infinite loop if two URLs redirect to each other.
>
> You might want to take a look at the higher level httplib module:
> http://docs.python.org/library/httplib.html
>
> Although I don't think it can automatically follow redirects for you.
> You'll have to implement the loop yourself.
>
> If you can rely on 3rd party packages (not part of the standard Python
> library), take a look at httplib2:
> https://httplib2.googlecode.com/hg/doc/html/libhttplib2.html
>
> This one can follow redirects.
>
> HTH,
>
> 2011/5/31 Karim<karim.liateni at free.fr>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having issue in reading a html page which is redirected to a new page.
>> I get the first warning/error message page and not the redirection one.
>> Should I request a second time the same url page or Should I loop forever
>> until the
>> page content is the correct (by parsing it) one?
>> Do you have a better strategy or perhaps some modules deal w/ that issue?
>> I am using python 2.7.1 on Linux ubuntu 11.04 and the modules urllib2,
>> urllib, etc...
>> The webpage is secured but I registered a password manager.
>>
>> cheers
>> karim
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Alex, Ian, Hugo,

Thanks a THOUSAND TIMES!
With all the hints and weapons 'I will survive' ;o)

I have to use python standard but 'libhttplib2' 3rd party module, I will 
have a look.

Many many thanks
Cheers
Karim