Dealing with HTTP status code and exceptions

Dealing with HTTP status code

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:

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

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:

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

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