On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Klein, Michael wrote:

> Amazon.com doesn't seem to allow HEAD requests -- it returns a 405  
> METHOD
> NOT ALLOWED status

Bummer, yes, but Jonathan, thanks for that Terry Reese HEAD-tip, very  
cool.

BTW, for you pythonistas, I'm used to urllib/urllib2 & it took me a  
little longer than expected to find how to do a HEAD-request:

 >>> import httplib
 >>> c = httplib.HTTPConnection( 'www.amazon.com' )
 >>> c.request('HEAD', '/gp/reader/0060589469' )
 >>> r = c.getresponse()

Jonathan, I've done exactly the same as you; screen-scraping the GET  
response text.

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