-def download_file(url, dest_dir):
- response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
+def download_file(src_url, dest_dir):
+ try:
+ response = urllib2.urlopen(src_url)
+ except Exception, e:
+ print 'Downloading from', src_url, 'failed.', e
+ return
+
+ # get the final URL after possible redirect have been followed