[New-bugs-announce] [issue2868] Problem with urllib and urllib2 in urlopen?

[Ambarish Malpani]

New submission from Ambarish Malpani <ambarish at yahoo.com>:

I have the following code:

import urllib
u = 'http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9216417'
h = urllib.urlopen(u).read()
print h
# Get an empty string
#(can use urllib2 also - get the same behavior)

If I visit the same page with my browser, get the contents of the page
(after some redirects...)

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 66872
nosy: ambarish
severity: normal
status: open
title: Problem with urllib and urllib2 in urlopen?
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5

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