On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 17:28:43 -0200, Jonas Galvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, here's a question about urllib. Is it possible to simply > retrieve the HTTP responde code for a given URL? I don't want to > download the body of the HTTP message. I simply want to check the > response code, like, if it is 200, 301 etc. Something like: > > if urllib.urlopen(the_url).response_code == 200: > # ... > > Is there an easy way to do this? > Should I be using urllib2 instead?
Jonas, check this link: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2004-September/000814.html There was a discussion on the WebSig about adding support for HEAD requests on urllib2 (they were still not implemented at that time, three months ago). Perhaps there is a patch somewhere for it... -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
