Newbie problem with HTTP Redirection in Python 2.4 urllib2

[Sriram Krishnan]

I've just downloaded the alpha of Python 2.4 and I'm not able to get
HTTP Redirection to work - even the examples are failing for me. They
all give the same error message (whenever a site issues a HTTP 302)

import urllib2

thing = urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler()


opener = urllib2.build_opener(thing)


url = 'http://www.msdn.com'
page = opener.open(url)



Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "test.py", line 11, in ?
    f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.msdn.com/')
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 131, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 359, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 377, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 338, in _call_cha
    result = func(*args)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1014, in http_ope
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 1008, in do_open
    r.msg.dict)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 397, in error
    result = self._call_chain(*args)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 338, in _call_cha
    result = func(*args)
  File "D:\Python24\lib\urllib2.py", line 524, in http_erro
    newurl = headers.getheaders('location')[0]
AttributeError: 'dict' object has no attribute 'getheaders'



Am I making a newbie error here? Or am I missing something?

Sriram