500 error with urllib.request.urlopen

Question

The following code:

   req = urllib.request.Request(url=r\"http://borel.slu.edu/cgi-bin/cc.cgi?foirm_ionchur=im&foirm=Seol&hits=1&format=xml\",he         


        

Answer 1

The server is rather b0rken. It responds with a 500 error in the browser as well.

You can catch the exception and still read the response:

import urllib.request
from urllib.error import HTTPError

req = urllib.request.Request(url=r"http://borel.slu.edu/cgi-bin/cc.cgi?foirm_ionchur=im&foirm=Seol&hits=1&format=xml",headers={'User-Agent':' Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0'})
try:
    handler = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
except HTTPError as e:
    content = e.read()