Finding Default Page Name using urllib2

[barrett]

Is there a way to find the name of a page you are retrieving using
python. For example, if I get http://www.cnn.com/ i want to know that
the page is index.html. I can do this using wget. as seen in the code
below. Can I do this in python?

Thanks,

$ wget cnn.com
--11:15:25-- http://cnn.com/
=`index.html'
Resolving cnn.com... 157.166.226.25, 157.166.226.26,
157.166.224.25, ...
Connecting to cnn.com|157.166 .226.25|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.cnn.com/ [following]
--11:15:25-- http://www.cnn.com/
=`index.html'
Resolving www.cnn.com... 157.166.224.25, 157.166.224.26,
157.166.226.25, ...
Reusing existing connection to cnn.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 96,094 (94K) [text/html]

100%[=============== =============== ======>] 96,094 68.15K/s

11:15:28 (67.99 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [96094/96094]

[Philip Semanchuk]

Re: Finding Default Page Name using urllib2


On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:17 PM, barrett wrote:

Is there a way to find the name of a page you are retrieving using
python. For example, if I get http://www.cnn.com/ i want to know that
the page is index.html. I can do this using wget. as seen in the code
below. Can I do this in python?

Hi barrett,
Look into the urllib2 module and specifically HTTPRedirectHan dler
objects.


Good luck
Philip

[Méta-MCI \(MVP\)]

Re: Finding Default Page Name using urllib2

Hi!

Can I do this in python?

No.
The "default page" is a property of the web-server ; and it is not
client side.
Examples :
for Apache, it's index.html or index.htm ; but if PHP is installed,
index.php is also possible.
for APS, it's init.htm (between others possibilites).
etc.

@-salutations
--
Michel Claveau