urllib behaves strangely

[Benjamin Niemann]

Benjamin Niemann wrote:

> Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
> 
>> Here is a very simple Python script utilizing urllib:
>> 
>>      import urllib
>>      url =
>> "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/chronological"
>>      print url
>>      print
>>      file = urllib.urlopen( url )
>>      mime = file.info()
>>      print mime
>>      print file.read()
>>      print file.geturl()
>> 
>> 
>> However, when i ecexute it, i get an html error ("access denied").
>> 
>> On the one hand, the funny thing though is that i can view the page fine
>> in my browser, and i can download it fine using curl.
>> 
>> On the other hand, it must have something to do with the URL because
>> urllib works fine with any other URL i have tried ...
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> I would appreciate very much any hints or suggestions.
> 
> The ':' in '..Commons:Feat..' is not a legal character in this part of the
> URI and has to be %-quoted as '%3a'.

Oops, I was wrong... ':' *is* allowed in path segments. I should eat
something, my vision starts to get blurry...

> Try the URI
> 'http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons%3aFeatured_pictures/chronological',

You may try this anyway...


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