Kushal Kumaran wrote in news:1274889564.2339.16.ca...@nitrogen in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 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 Thanks, following this I did change the line to be: request.add_header( "Accept-Encoding", "identity" ) but it made no difference to en.wiktionary.org it just sent the back a gzip encoded response. Rob.
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