[Tutor] urllib vs requests

[Mats Wichmann]

On 12/6/21 15:37, Julius Hamilton wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Could anyone please let me know why requests.get fetches the following url
> effectively but urllib.request.urlopen returns “403 Forbidden”?
> 
> https://juno.sh/direct-connection-to-jupyter-server/
> 
> Is it because they make different types of requests so the web server
> detects that urllib is something it doesn’t accept? Is there any way around
> that?

If there's a proxy involved, that's probably the issue, last I knew it 
it didn't talk to https through a proxy without some further hacks.

also note that urllib docs themselves recommend using requests if it 
makes sense.

> 
> By the way, is there any Python email group for slightly more advanced
> questions than the tutor group? More like troubleshooting or something,
> from package maintainers?

python-list is one http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

can also try https://discuss.python.org/ which is a board, but you can 
also access it via email.

Or the Python Discord: https://discord.com/invite/python