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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