On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:08 -0600, Michael Gruenstaeudl wrote: > I am fairly new to Python and need advice on the urllib.urlopen() > function. The website I am trying to open automatically refreshes > after 5 seconds and remains stable thereafter. With > urllib.urlopen().read() I can only read the initial but not the > refreshed page. How can I access the refreshed page via > urlopen().read()? I have already tried to intermediate with > time.sleep() before invoking .read() (see below), but this does not > work.
In all probability, the server is instructing the browser to load a different URL via either a Refresh: header or a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag in the page. You will have to retrieve that information then issue a request for the new URL. It might even be redirecting via JavaScript, in which case, you lose (it's possible to handle this case, but it's difficult). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
