resolve http redirect

resolve_redirect.py

import httplib, urlparse

def resolve_http_redirect(url, depth=10):
    """
    >>> resolve_http_redirect('http://localhost:8080/share')
    'http://localhost:8080/share/page/'
    """
    o = urlparse.urlparse(url)
    connection = httplib.HTTPConnection(o.netloc)
    connection.request('GET', o.path)
    response = connection.getresponse()
    location = response.getheader('location')
    if response.status == httplib.FOUND and location != None:
        return resolve_http_redirect(location)
    elif response.status == httplib.OK:
        return url

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print(resolve_http_redirect('http://localhost:8080/share'))