On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:12 +0000, Rob Williscroft wrote: > Barry wrote in news:83dc485a-5a20-403b-99ee-c8c627bdbab3 > @m21g2000vbr.googlegroups.com in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > Hi, > > > > The code below is giving me the error: > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:\Users\Administratör\Desktop\test.py", line 4, in <module> > > UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x8b in position 1: > > unexpected code byte > > > > > > What am i doing wrong? > > It may not be you, en.wiktionary.org is sending gzip > encoded content back, it seems to do this even if you set > the Accept header as in: > > request.add_header( "Accept", "text/html" ) > > But maybe I'm not doing it correctly. >
You need the Accept-Encoding: identity header. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec3.html <snip> -- regards, kushal -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
