Explicit "allow_redirects=True"

utils.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 import xmlschema
 import sys
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
-from pprint import pprint
+#from pprint import pprint
 
 # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7160737/python-how-to-validate-a-url-in-python-malformed-or-not
 def uri_validator(x):
@@ -53,14 +53,13 @@ def get_xsd(cfg, xsd_version=None, xml_str = None):
                             break       
     if uri_validator(url):
         try:
-            r = requests.get(url)
-            #pprint(vars(r))
+            r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
             if r.url.endswith(filename): # no bad redirection
-                xsd_str = r.text
+                return r.text
+            else:
+                return False
         except:
-            pass
-            
-    return xsd_str
+            return False
 
 def parse(xml_str):
     try: