How to handle redirects while parsing HTML? - Python

I'm trying to submit a few forms through a Python script, I'm using the mechanized library.

This is so I can implement a temporary API.

The problem is that before after submission a blank page is returned informing that the request is being processed, after a few seconds the page is redirected to the final page.

I unders开发者_Python百科tand if it might sound a bit generic, but I'm not sure what is going on. :)

Any ideas?

Traditionally When you get a redirect, the status code of the response is 302, and there's a location header that instructs the browser where to go next. Other techniques(that are lame) would be to put a meta refresh tag in the head of the document.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://nextlocation.com">

And I suppose there's any number of ways to do it with javascript(also lame)

If it uses meta tags then you need to parse the HTML manually. Otherwise mechanize will handle the redirect automatically.