[Pywikipedia-l] SVN: [3944] trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py - pywikibot

2 Aug 2007

Revision: 3944
Author:   wikipedian
Date:     2007-08-01 23:41:57 +0000 (Wed, 01 Aug 2007)
Log Message:
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prevented an infinite loop when the server keeps giving
httplib.BadStatusLine exceptions
Modified Paths:
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    trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py
Modified: trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py
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--- trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py	2007-08-01 23:34:27 UTC (rev 3943)
+++ trunk/pywikipedia/weblinkchecker.py	2007-08-01 23:41:57 UTC (rev 3944)
@@ -269,7 +269,10 @@
             # e.g. http://www.radiorus.ru/ which is running on a very old
             # Apache server. Using GET instead works on these (but it uses
             # more bandwidth).
-            return self.resolveRedirect(useHEAD = False)
+            if useHEAD:
+                return self.resolveRedirect(useHEAD = False)
+            else:
+                raise
         if response.status >= 300 and response.status <= 399:
             #print response.getheaders()
             redirTarget = response.getheader('Location')

    