Bugs item #1349977, was opened at 2005-11-06 22:31 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by bcannon You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1349977&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.4 >Status: Closed >Resolution: Rejected Priority: 5 Submitted By: Michael Hoisie (asyncster) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: urllib2 blocked from news.google.com Initial Comment: It seems that google is blocking requests from clients with urllib 2.4 as the user-agent. If you telnet to news.google.com and type: GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: news.google.com User-agent: Python-urllib/2.4 You get a HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon) Date: 2005-11-07 13:20 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=357491 It isn't a Python bug, but then again it got my attention which means I can contact people within Google to see if they can find out what happened. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh) Date: 2005-11-07 06:38 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=6656 In what crazy universe is this a Python bug? It's up to google what they do with http requests, surely. If you are reasonably sure that your use does not violate the terms of use for google news: http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/terms_google_news.html Then you can experiment with getting urllib to send a different User-Agent header. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Brett Cannon (bcannon) Date: 2005-11-06 23:21 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=357491 I can verify this using urllib.urlretrieve() from the trunk. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1349977&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
