urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

[Chris Mellon]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steven at remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:38:20 -0600, Chris Mellon wrote:
>
>>> Why Google would deny access to services by unknown User Agents is
>>> beyond me - especially since in most cases User Agents strings are not
>>> strict.
>>
>> If you look at the actual response text and not just the error code, you
>> will get a clear explanation of why you were forbidden.
>
> You have a funny idea of what constitutes a "clear explanation".
>
>
> <H1>Forbidden</H1>
> Your client does not have permission to get URL <code>/group/chromium-
> announce/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml</code> from this server.
>
>
> That hardly explains "Why Google would deny access to services by unknown
> User Agents", does it?
>
>

I suppose I should have checked that specific URL. The search results
pages (last I checked) gave a detailed error message.