From 6a662a5854e509dc32c35fb92f825d2e61b9265d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:50:44 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]

---
 src/libprs500/web/feeds/news.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libprs500/web/feeds/news.py b/src/libprs500/web/feeds/news.py
index 74c6cfd2f5..c5fbaf921f 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(object):
         '''
         if re.match(r'\w+://', url_or_raw):
             raw = self.browser.open(url_or_raw).read()
+            if not raw:
+                raise RuntimeError('Could not fetch index from %s'%url_or_raw)
         else:
             raw = url_or_raw
         if not isinstance(raw, unicode) and self.encoding: