urllib.urlretireve problem

Tue Mar 29 20:29:11 EST 2005

I noticed you hadn't gotten a reply.  When I execute this it put's the following
in the retrieved file:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Not Found</H1>
The requested URL /pool/updates/main/p/perl/libparl5.6_5.6.1-8.9_i386.deb was no
t found on this server.<P>
</BODY></HTML>

You will probably need to use something else to first determine if the URL
actually exists.

Larry Bates

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
>  I've got a small problem with urlretrieve.
> Even passing a bad url to urlretrieve doesn't raise an exception. Or does
> it?
> 
> If Yes, What exception is it ? And how do I use it in my program ? I've
> searched a lot but haven't found anything helping.
> 
> Example:
> try:
>   
> urllib.urlretrieve("http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/perl/libparl5.6_5.6.1-8.9_i386.deb")
> except IOError, X:
> DoSomething(X)
> except OSError, X:
> DoSomething(X)
> 
> urllib.urlretrieve doesn't raise an exception even though there is no
> package named libparl5.6
> 
> Please Help!
> 
> rrs