Re: Retrieve Custom 404 page.

[Albert Hopkins]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:59 -0800, godavemon wrote:

I'm using urllib2 to pull pages for a custom version of a web proxy
and am having issues with 404 errors. Urllib2 does a great job of
letting me know that a 404 happened with the following code.
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import urllib2
url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/'
try:
page = urllib2.urlopen ( url )
except urllib2.URLErro r, e:
print e
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returns: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

>From the urllib2 docs: HTTPError is also a valid HTTP response, so you

can treat an HTTP error as an exceptional event or a valid response:

import urllib2
url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/'
try:
page = urllib2.urlopen (url)
except urllib2.URLErro r, e:
print e.read()

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http://cnn.com/asdfasdfadsf

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[godavemon]

Re: Retrieve Custom 404 page.

Perfect! Thanks!

On Nov 17, 4:16 pm, Albert Hopkins <mar...@python. invalidwrote:

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 13:59 -0800, godavemon wrote:

I'm using urllib2 to pull pages for a custom version of a web proxy
and am having issues with 404 errors.  Urllib2 does a great job of
letting me know that a 404 happened with the following code.

>

import urllib2
url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/'
try:
    page = urllib2.urlopen ( url )
except urllib2.URLErro r, e:
    print e

>

returns: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
From the urllib2 docs: HTTPError is also a valid HTTP response, so you

>
can treat an HTTP error as an exceptional event or a valid response:
>
import urllib2
url = 'http://cnn.com/asfsdafsadfasdf/'
try:
    page = urllib2.urlopen (url)
except urllib2.URLErro r, e:
    print e.read()
>
>
>

http://cnn.com/asdfasdfadsf

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