Python urllib2.urlopen returning 302 error even though page exists
<p>I am using the Pyhton function <code>urllib2.urlopen</code> to read the <a href="http://www.bad.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bad.org.uk/</a> website but I keep getting a 302 error even though when I visit the site it loads ok.  Anyone have any idea why?</p>

<pre><code>        import socket 

        headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT)' }

        socket.setdefaulttimeout(10)

        try:
            req = urllib2.Request('http://www.bad.org.uk/', None, headers)
            urllib2.urlopen(req)
            return True         # URL Exist
        except ValueError, ex:
            print 'URL: %s not well formatted' % 'http://www.bad.org.uk/'
            return False        # URL not well formatted
        except urllib2.HTTPError, ex:
            print 'The server couldn\'t fulfill the request for %s.' % 'http://www.bad.org.uk/'
            print 'Error code: ', ex.code
            return False
        except urllib2.URLError, ex:
            print 'We failed to reach a server for %s.' % 'http://www.bad.org.uk/'
            print 'Reason: ', ex.reason
            return False        # URL don't seem to be alive
</code></pre>

<p>error printed:</p>

<p>The server couldn't fulfill the request for <a href="http://www.bad.org.uk//site/1/default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.bad.org.uk//site/1/default.aspx</a>.</p>

<p>Error code:  302</p>
