Gabriel Zachmann wrote: > Here is a very simple Python script utilizing urllib: > > import urllib > url = > "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/chronological"; > print url > print > file = urllib.urlopen( url ) > mime = file.info() > print mime > print file.read() > print file.geturl() > > > However, when i ecexute it, i get an html error ("access denied"). > > On the one hand, the funny thing though is that i can view the page fine > in my browser, and i can download it fine using curl. > > On the other hand, it must have something to do with the URL because > urllib works fine with any other URL i have tried ... > > Any ideas? > I would appreciate very much any hints or suggestions.
The ':' in '..Commons:Feat..' is not a legal character in this part of the URI and has to be %-quoted as '%3a'. Try the URI 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3aFeatured_pictures/chronological', perhaps urllib is stricter than your browsers (which are known to accept every b******t you feed into them, sometimes with very confusing results) and gets confused when it tries to parse the malformed URI. -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
