urllib2 won't raise exceptions
OtisUsenet
otis_usenet at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 22 19:27:18 EDT 2002
Hello,
I am trying to use urllib2 to make HTTP POST requests and a) retrieve
HTTP status, and b) check for any exceptions.
1) I don't see a way to get the status code back from urllib nor
urllib2 (and I read that this will be impossible to get from them and
that httplib should be used instead).
2) I read that if something fails, URLError or HTTPError will be
raised. So I have the code to catch them and print someting.
However, nothing ever gets printed, even if I request pages that give
'500 Server Error', like in the case below.
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks.
(pardon my indentation, I pasted this a few times...)
from urllib2 import *
def sendRequest(self):
try:
# NB: this URL gives "500 Server Error"
urlObject = \
urllib2.urlopen('http://www.clr.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/doc/show/doc=Cross.Rodney')
response = urlObject.read()
urlObject.close()
return response
except URLError, msg:
print "URLError: ", msg;
except HTTPError, msg:
print "HTTPError: ", msg;
except Exception, msg:
print "EXCEPTION"
except Error, e:
print "ERROR"
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