Fast URL validation?

[Erik Max Francis]

Thomas Weholt wrote:

> If r1.status is something other than 200 then the document is either
> missing, server failure or your request will be redirected etc. If you
> wanted to read the entire document you'd have to do this before
> closing the
> connection:
> >>> document = r1.read()
> >>> conn.close()
> 
> Or something similar. Don't know if this is the fastest way of doing
> it.
> Please, post a better solution if you find one.

I suspect this probably wouldn't make much of a difference; my suspicion
is that (at least a buffer's full) of the content will be downloaded
regardless of when you call close on the connection object, so long as
you've invoked getresponse.

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