How do I prevent Python's urllib(2) from following a redirect
I am currently trying to log into a site using Python however the site seems to be sending a cookie and a redirect statement on the same page. Python seems to be following that redirect thus preventing me from reading the cookie send by the login page. How do I prevent Python's urllib (or urllib2) urlopen from following the redirect?
Solution 1:
You could do a couple of things:
- Build your own HTTPRedirectHandler that intercepts each redirect
- Create an instance of HTTPCookieProcessor and install that opener so that you have access to the cookiejar.
This is a quick little thing that shows both
import urllib2
#redirect_handler = urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler()
class MyHTTPRedirectHandler(urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler):
def http_error_302(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers):
print "Cookie Manip Right Here"
return urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler.http_error_302(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers)
http_error_301 = http_error_303 = http_error_307 = http_error_302
cookieprocessor = urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(MyHTTPRedirectHandler, cookieprocessor)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
response =urllib2.urlopen("WHEREEVER")
print response.read()
print cookieprocessor.cookiejar
Solution 2:
If all you need is stopping redirection, then there is a simple way to do it. For example I only want to get cookies and for a better performance I don't want to be redirected to any other page. Also I hope the code is kept as 3xx. let's use 302 for instance.
class MyHTTPErrorProcessor(urllib2.HTTPErrorProcessor):
def http_response(self, request, response):
code, msg, hdrs = response.code, response.msg, response.info()
# only add this line to stop 302 redirection.
if code == 302: return response
if not (200 <= code < 300):
response = self.parent.error(
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
return response
https_response = http_response
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj), MyHTTPErrorProcessor)
In this way, you don't even need to go into urllib2.HTTPRedirectHandler.http_error_302()
Yet more common case is that we simply want to stop redirection (as required):
class NoRedirection(urllib2.HTTPErrorProcessor):
def http_response(self, request, response):
return response
https_response = http_response
And normally use it this way:
cj = cookielib.CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(NoRedirection, urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj))
data = {}
response = opener.open('http://www.example.com', urllib.urlencode(data))
if response.code == 302:
redirection_target = response.headers['Location']