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Dealing with HTTP status code and exceptions
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Dealing with HTTP status code
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It's also possible to check which HTTP status code a browser.visit gets. You can use ``status_code.is_success`` to do the work
for you or you can compare the status code directly:

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    browser.visit('http://cobrateam.info')
    browser.status_code.is_success() # True
    # or
    browser.status_code == 200 # True

The difference between those methods is that if you get a redirect (or something that is not an HTTP error),
``status_code.is_success`` will consider your response as successfully.

Handling HTTP exceptions
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Whenever you use the ``visit`` method, Splinter will check if the response is success or not, and if not, it will raise an
HttpResponseError exception. But don't worry, you can easily catch it:

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    try:
        browser.visit('http://cobrateam.info/i-want-cookies')
    except HttpResponseError, e:
        print "Oops, I failed with the status code %s and reason %s" % (e.status_code, e.reason)

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    **Note:** ``status_code`` and this HTTP exception handling is available only for selenium webdriver