Jonas Galvez 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?
I'd recommend using httplib instead of urllib, and running a HEAD request.
>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('localhost')
>>> conn.request('HEAD', '/whatever')
>>> res = conn.getresponse()
>>> res.status
404
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