Python urllib cache

Question

I\'m writing a script in Python that should determine if it has internet access.

import urllib

CHECK_PAGE     = \"http://64.37.51.146/check.txt\"
CHECK_VALUE            


        

Answer 1

Call urllib.urlcleanup() before each call of urllib.urlopen() will solve the problem. Actually, urllib.urlopen will call urlretrive() function which creates a cache to hold data, and urlcleanup() will remove it.

Answer 2

You want

page = urllib.urlopen(CHECK_PAGE, proxies={})

Remove the

urllib.getproxies = lambda x = None: {}

line.