urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

ajaksu ajaksu at gmail.com
Mon Jan 12 18:48:50 EST 2009


On Jan 11, 11:59 pm, "James Mills" <prolo... at shortcircuit.net.au>
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> The following fails for me:
>
> >>> from urllib2 import urlopen
> >>> f = urlopen("http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-announce/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml")
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
[...]
> Any helpful ideas ?

Maybe raise a real bug @ bugs.python.org instead of just mentioning it
like I did: http://bugs.python.org/msg77889

I think at least some sites would be willing to add the new UA to
their whitelists.

HTH,
Daniel



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