urllib2 - 403 that _should_ not occur.

[Philip Semanchuk]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Steve Holden wrote:

> Philip Semanchuk wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:48 PM, ajaksu wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I don't think I understand you clearly. Whether or not Google et al
>> whitelist the Python UA isn't a Python issue, is it?
>>
> I'd say it's an issue relevant to Python users, which woudl seem to  
> put
> it pretty much in the mainstream for c.l.py - especially as the code
> causing concern was written in Python.

I didn't mean to imply that the conversation didn't belong here. I  
think that is perfectly appropriate. What I don't understand is the  
suggestion that Google's server config should be raised as a bug  
against Python. (i.e. "raise a real bug @ bugs.python.org...")