Making HTTP HEAD request with urllib2 from Python 2

Question

I\'m trying to do a HEAD request of a page using Python 2.

I am trying

import misc_urllib2
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opender = urllib2.build_opener([misc_urllib2.MyHTTPR         


        

Answer 1

The problem lies with your class HeadRequest, which inherits from urllib2.Request. According to doc, urllib2.Request.__init__ signature is

 __init__(self, url, data=None, headers={}, origin_req_host=None, unverifiable=False) 

so you must pass an url argument to it. In your second try, you just do not use HeadRequest, this is why it works.