python,not getting full response

Question

when I want to get the page using urllib2, I don\'t get the full page.

here is the code in python:

import urllib2
import urllib
import socket
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Answer 1

You might have to call read multiple times, as long as it does not return an empty string indicating EOF:

def get_page(url):
    """ loads a webpage into a string """
    src = ''

    req = urllib2.Request(url)

    try:
        response = urllib2.urlopen(req)
        chunk = True
        while chunk:
            chunk = response.read(1024)
            src += chunk
        response.close()
    except IOError:
        print 'can\'t open',url 
        return src

    return src