diff --git a/dosagelib/plugins/a.py b/dosagelib/plugins/a.py
index 91adcf8b6..30f1b82e9 100644
--- a/dosagelib/plugins/a.py
+++ b/dosagelib/plugins/a.py
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ class AppleGeeks(_BasicScraper):
     firstStripUrl = stripUrl % '1'
     imageSearch = compile(tagre("img", "src", r'((?:/comics/)?issue\d+\.jpg)'))
     prevSearch = compile(r'<div class="caption">Previous Comic</div>\s*<p><a href="([^"]+)">', MULTILINE)
+    allow_errors = (404,)
     help = 'Index format: n (unpadded)'
 
 
diff --git a/dosagelib/plugins/s.py b/dosagelib/plugins/s.py
index eefa744e3..16125a6c8 100644
--- a/dosagelib/plugins/s.py
+++ b/dosagelib/plugins/s.py
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ class SexyLosers(_ParserScraper):
 class Sharksplode(_WordPressScraper):
     url = 'http://sharksplode.com/'
     textSearch = '//div[@id="comic"]//img/@alt'
+    allow_errors = (403,)
 
 
 class Sheldon(_BasicScraper):
@@ -324,6 +325,7 @@ class Sorcery101(_ParserScraper):
     prevSearch = '//a[@rel="prev"]'
     latestSearch = '//a[%s]' % xpath_class('last-webcomic-link')
     starter = indirectStarter
+    allow_errors = (500,)
     help = 'Index format: stripname'
 
 
diff --git a/dosagelib/scraper.py b/dosagelib/scraper.py
index b4ef59762..21099540b 100644
--- a/dosagelib/scraper.py
+++ b/dosagelib/scraper.py
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ class Scraper(object):
     # usually the index format help
     help = ''
 
+    # Specifing a list of HTTP error codes which should be handled as a
+    # successful request.  This is a workaround for some comics which return
+    # regular pages with strange HTTP codes. By default, all HTTP errors raise
+    # exceptions.
+    allow_errors = ()
+
     # HTTP session for configuration & cookies
     session = requests_session()
 
@@ -306,7 +312,7 @@ class Scraper(object):
         methods should be able to use the data if they so desire... (Affected
         methods: shouldSkipUrl, imageUrlModifier)
         """
-        raise ValueError("No implementation for getPage!")
+        return get_page(url, self.session, allow_errors=self.allow_errors)
 
     def fetchUrls(self, url, data, urlsearch):
         raise ValueError("No implementation for fetchUrls!")
@@ -362,7 +368,7 @@ class _BasicScraper(Scraper):
     BASE_SEARCH = re.compile(tagre("base", "href", '([^"]*)'))
 
     def getPage(self, url):
-        content = get_page(url, self.session).text
+        content = super(_BasicScraper, self).getPage(url).text
         # determine base URL
         baseUrl = None
         match = self.BASE_SEARCH.search(content)
@@ -449,7 +455,7 @@ class _ParserScraper(Scraper):
     broken_html_bugfix = False
 
     def getPage(self, url):
-        page = get_page(url, self.session)
+        page = super(_ParserScraper, self).getPage(url)
         if page.encoding:
             # Requests figured out the encoding, so we can deliver Unicode to
             # LXML. Unfortunatly, LXML feels betrayed if there is still an XML
diff --git a/dosagelib/util.py b/dosagelib/util.py
index 1326ec088..35086dfe3 100644
--- a/dosagelib/util.py
+++ b/dosagelib/util.py
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ import re
 import traceback
 import time
 import subprocess
+
 from six.moves.html_parser import HTMLParser
+from six.moves import range
 import six
 
 try:
@@ -172,11 +174,11 @@ def case_insensitive_re(name):
     return "".join("[%s%s]" % (c.lower(), c.upper()) for c in name)
 
 
-def get_page(url, session, max_content_bytes=MaxContentBytes):
+def get_page(url, session, **kwargs):
     """Get text content of given URL."""
     check_robotstxt(url, session)
     # read page data
-    page = urlopen(url, session, max_content_bytes=max_content_bytes)
+    page = urlopen(url, session, max_content_bytes=MaxContentBytes, **kwargs)
     out.debug(u"Got page content %r" % page.content, level=3)
     return page
 
@@ -257,7 +259,7 @@ def get_robotstxt_parser(url, session=None):
     rp = RobotFileParser()
     try:
         req = urlopen(url, session, max_content_bytes=MaxContentBytes,
-                      raise_for_status=False)
+                      allow_errors=range(600))
     except Exception:
         # connect or timeout errors are treated as an absent robots.txt
         rp.allow_all = True
@@ -270,7 +272,7 @@ def get_robotstxt_parser(url, session=None):
 
 
 def urlopen(url, session, referrer=None, max_content_bytes=None,
-            raise_for_status=True, useragent=UserAgent, **kwargs):
+            allow_errors=(), useragent=UserAgent, **kwargs):
     """Open an URL and return the response object."""
     out.debug(u'Open URL %s' % url)
     if 'headers' not in kwargs:
@@ -291,7 +293,7 @@ def urlopen(url, session, referrer=None, max_content_bytes=None,
         req = session.request(method, url, **kwargs)
         out.debug(u'Response cookies: %s' % req.cookies)
         check_content_size(url, req.headers, max_content_bytes)
-        if raise_for_status:
+        if req.status_code not in allow_errors:
             req.raise_for_status()
         return req
     except requests.exceptions.RequestException as err: