urllib user agent?

[Tim Heaney]

Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> writes:

> How do you change the user agent reported by urllib? I need to access
> a resource that rejects anything but IE.

Look under _urlopener in the urllib documentation

  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html

The example there seems to be just what you need...just change the
self.version line to something like

  self.version = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)'

I hope this helps,

Tim