I tried it, and when checking it using a proxy, saw that it didn't really work, at least in the version that I have (urllib v1.17 and urllib2 v2.5). It just added that header onto the end, therefore making there two User-Agent headers, each with different values. I might add that my script IS able to retrieve search pages from Google, whereas both urllibs are FORBIDDEN with the headers that they use.
On 4/8/07, Max Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Subscriber123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > urllib, or urllib2 for advanced users. For example, you can > easily set your own headers when retrieving and serving pages, > such as the User-Agent header which you cannot set in either > urllib or urllib2. Sure you can. See: http://www.diveintopython.org/http_web_services/user_agent.html (though the behavior was changed for python 2.3 to make setting the user agent work better) max -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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