Package: plucker Version: 1.8-27 Plucker fails to download images from geocaching.com (Bad request header) because a recent (?) change in Python's urllib changed the header name from User-agent to User-Agent.
http://dormouse.org.uk/geocache/ has a pretty good summary: | Problems with Python's urllib | | My inital experiments on Fedora Core 6 worked fine. When I moved to Fedora 7, | I found I was getting HTTP Bad Request errors. A little investigation with | tcpdump revealed that two almost identical headers were being sent: | | User-Agent: Python-urllib/1.17 | User-agent: Plucker/Py-1.8 | | On Fedora core 6, only the User-agent: Plucker/Py-1.8 was being sent. The | problem was traced to a subtle change in Python's urllib. In Python version | 2.4.4 (Used on Fedora Core 6), the default header has a lowercase 'a'. The | header being User-agent: Python-urllib/1.17. This header is deleted by Plucker | and replaced with User-agent: Plucker/Py-1.8. Unfortunately, as the header has | been renamed in Python 2.5 (Used on Fedora 7) with a capital 'A', the deletion | does not work. The fix was to patch Plucker as follows: | | --- PyPlucker/Retriever.py.orig 2004-05-19 16:18:19.000000000 +0100 | +++ PyPlucker/Retriever.py 2007-09-03 17:53:48.000000000 +0100 | @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ | def __init__(self, alias_list=None, config=None, *args): | apply(urllib.FancyURLopener.__init__, (self,) + args) | self._alias_list = alias_list | - self.remove_header ('User-agent') | + self.remove_header ('User-Agent') | user_agent = (config and config.get_string('user_agent', None)) or 'Plucker/Py-%s' % __version__ | - self.addheader ('User-agent', user_agent) | + self.addheader ('User-Agent', user_agent) | referrer = config and config.get_string('referrer', None) | if referrer: | self.addheader('Referer', referrer) This patch fixed the issue for me, please consider applying it to the Debian package. (This might even be worth a fix in lenny.) Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/
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