Inconsistent result from urllib.urlopen
Laszlo Nagy
gandalf at designaproduct.biz
Thu Apr 12 14:41:06 EDT 2007
> Any ideas why I don't get the same result from the python script as I
> do from a web browser? This problem seems to be a recent
> development. The scripts I wrote like this worked fine for a while
> and then stopped working within the past couple of weeks.
>
Maybe it has to do something with your user agent string. The server
side can decide to return a different content when your user agent is
not 'mozilla', 'internet explorer' or 'opera' etc.
Do you want to know how to change your user agent string? Google for
it.... :-)
Laszlo
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