urllib2 HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

Question

I have a piece of code like this

host = \'http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&go=&qs=n&sk=&sc=8-13&first=%s\' % (query, page)
req = urllib2.         


        

Answer 1

I also encountered the same problem. Turns out the problem was the method was set inappropriately. When you include urlencoded data in urllib2.urlopen () the method should be set to POST and when you exclude it, method should be GET. So, how do you set the method is given below:

For POST request

request_object = urllib2.Request(url)
method = ("POST", "GET")
request_object.get_method = lambda: method[0] #If method is set to POST
url_handle = opener.open(req, data) #If method is set to POST

For GET request

request_object = urllib2.Request(url)
method = ("POST", "GET")
request_object.get_method = lambda: method[1] #If method is set to GET
url_handle = opener.open(req) #If method is set to GET

This will set your url request method to the appropriate required method