Hello, My script to call a web service authenticates. I would like to be able to trap an exception if the authentication fails. The script loops over a list of dates and I don't want it to retry for every element in the list. This could take a long time and be very annoying when, after the long wait, a stacktrace spews out of the last attempt. The assumption is that if it fails, it is not a transient network or some other issue but that the credentials themselves are faulty.
Now, the authentication header is sent with the initial request, so it does not look to me like the standard process of request, get a 401 and then re-request with credentials is relevant. However, clearly the opener issues a number of retries after the initial failure. But, I don't see a mechanism in urllib2 for taking notice of a failure and acting on it. Can somebody point me toward a solution? Thanks. mp -- Michael Powe mich...@trollope.org Naugatuck CT USA "And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners." -- Berke Breathed
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