Benjamin Niemann wrote: > 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'.
Oops, I was wrong... ':' *is* allowed in path segments. I should eat something, my vision starts to get blurry... > Try the URI > 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3aFeatured_pictures/chronological', You may try this anyway... -- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
