Re: Inconsistent result from urllib.urlopen


Any ideas why I don't get the same result from the python script as I
do from a web browser? This problem seems to be a recent
development. The scripts I wrote like this worked fine for a while
and then stopped working within the past couple of weeks.
Maybe it has to do something with your user agent string. The server side can decide to return a different content when your user agent is not 'mozilla', 'internet explorer' or 'opera' etc.

Do you want to know how to change your user agent string? Google for it.... :-)

Laszlo


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