#!usr/bin/python import urllib2,time; class ErrorHandler(urllib2.HTTPDefaultErrorHandler): def http_error_default(self, req, fp, code, msg, headers): result = urllib2.HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, headers, fp) result.status = code return result URL='http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/js/ajax1.js' req=urllib2.Request(URL) mgr=urllib2.build_opener(ErrorHandler()) while True: ns=mgr.open(req) if(ns.headers.has_key('last-modified')): modified=ns.headers.get('last-modified') if(ns.code==304): print ''' ============================== NOT MODIFIED ============================== ''' elif(ns.code==200): print ns.read() else: print 'there is an error'; if(not locals().has_key('modified')): modified=time.time(); req.add_header('If-Modified-Since',modified) time.sleep(10)