BadStatusLine error

[Jim]

Hi

I get a BadStatusLine error (indicated below). Can anyone help with
how to
catch error in code before abort?

Thanks
Jim

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File
"C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework
\scriptutils.py",
line 310, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:Lookup.py", line 103, in <module>
    contents = urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 121, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 374, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 392, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 353, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1100, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "C:\Python25\lib\urllib2.py", line 1073, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\httplib.py", line 924, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\httplib.py", line 385, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "C:\Python25\lib\httplib.py", line 349, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
BadStatusLine