Python urllib2: Reading content body even during HTTPError exception?

Question

I\'m using urllib2 to fetch a a page via HTTP. Sometimes the resource throws a HTTP error 400 (Bad Request) when my request contains an error. However, that response also cont

Answer 1

You can treat the error as a response.

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/urllib2.shtml#httperror

When an error is raised the server responds by returning an HTTP error code and an error page. You can use the HTTPError instance as a response on the page returned. This means that as well as the code attribute, it also has read, geturl, and info, methods.