urllib2 does not seem to be able to handle META-REFRESH in an html document. I just get back the html to the page that is supposed to forward me to the intended page.
Right - urllib2 is for working with protocols (like HTTP) to transfer data, whereas META-REFRESH is an application (browser) level "instruction" *in* that data. Compare this to a 302 HTTP response header (a simple redirect) - urllib2 can handle it because it is part of HTTP.
Any way around this?
Sure - META-REFRESH is an instruction to the browser, so have your code be the browser: scan the HTML for the tag, extract the URL, and send that new URL off to urllib2.
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