On Thursday 10 January 2008 22:42:44 Rob Wolfe wrote: > Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rob Wolfe wrote: > >> Dimitrios Apostolou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> P.S. And something simpler: How can I disallow urllib2 to follow > >>> redirections to foreign hosts? > >> > >> You need to subclass `urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler`, override > >> `http_error_301` and `http_error_302` methods and throw > >> `urllib2.HTTPError` exception. > > > > Thanks! I think for my case it's better to override redirect_request > > method, and return a Request only in case the redirection goes to the > > same site. Just another question, because I can't find in the docs the > > meaning of (req, fp, code, msg, hdrs) parameters. To read the URL I > > get redirected to (the 'Location:' HTTP header?), should I check the > > hdrs parameter or there is a better way? > > Well, according to the documentation there is no better way. > But I looked into the source code of `urllib2` and it seems > that `redirect_request` method takes one more parameter > `newurl`, what is probably what you're looking for. ;) > > Regards, > Rob
Cool! :-) Sometimes undocumented features provide superb solutions... I wonder if there is something similar for rate limiting :-s Thank you, Dimitris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
