HTTP response code

[Ian Bicking]

Jonas Galvez wrote:
> Hi list, here's a question about urllib. Is it possible to simply 
> retrieve the HTTP responde code for a given URL? I don't want to 
> download the body of the HTTP message. I simply want to check the 
> response code, like, if it is 200, 301 etc. Something like:
> 
> if urllib.urlopen(the_url).response_code == 200:
>     # ...
> 
> Is there an easy way to do this?
> Should I be using urllib2 instead?

I'd recommend using httplib instead of urllib, and running a HEAD request.

 >>> import httplib
 >>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('localhost')
 >>> conn.request('HEAD', '/whatever')
 >>> res = conn.getresponse()
 >>> res.status
404

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