code: def stream_url(url):
    
    try:
      response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
      response_content = response.read()
      return response_content
    except (urllib2.URLError, urllib2.HTTPError) as e:
      logger.error('Unable to access requested URL: %s', url)
      return False
docs: Read response of specified url into memory and return to caller. No persistence to disk.
    :return: response content if accessing the URL succeeds, False otherwise