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Response Code 202, Not a Qualified Error Code

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Edit

Being silly, I forgot to inspect the exception that is returned by urllib2. It features all of the properties I've been waxing on about for httplib. This should do the trick for you:

try:
    urllib2.urlopen(req)
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
    print "Response code",e.code # prints 404
    print "Response body",e.read() # prints the body of the response...
                                   # ie: your XML
    print "Headers",e.headers.headers

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In this case, given that you're using HTTP as your transport protocol, you'll probably have more luck with the httplib library:

>>> import httplib
>>> conn = httplib.HTTPConnection("www.stackoverflow.com")
>>> conn.request("GET", "/dlkfjadslkfjdslkfjd.html")
>>> r = conn.getresponse()
>>> r.status
301
>>> r.reason
'Moved Permanently'
>>> r.read()
'<head><title>Document Moved</title></head>\n<body><h1>Object Moved</h1>
 This document may be found   
 <a HREF="http://stackoverflow.com/dlkfjadslkfjdslkfjd.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/body&gt;'

You can further use r.getheaders() and so forth to inspect other aspects of the response.

Jarret Hardie 2009-12-11 19:19:49

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't use the urllib2.Request class with HTTPConnection.

John Giotta 2009-12-11 19:41:12

You are indeed correct. Is there something particular in the Request class that you're using?

Jarret Hardie 2009-12-11 19:47:04

Yes, byte string, or more accurately, a zip file.

John Giotta 2009-12-11 20:14:31

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