I am trying to write somecode of this kind :) opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor()) opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent','Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14'), ('Accept','text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/ html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5'),('Accept- Language','en-us,en;q=0.5'),('Accept-Encoding','gzip,deflate'), ('Accept-Charset','ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'),('Keep- Alive','300'),('Connection','keep-alive'),('Content-Type','application/ x-www-form-urlencoded')] urllib2.install_opener(opener)
fu = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.google.com') print fu.read() I am not able to open any webpage as the content is junk characters.something like below..what could be the problem????????????? if I don't install the 'opener' I get everything properly φ]δs┌H╢ £T═ ╨Cj2ª╓↑äx:&╖ █c▀╡‼»φÖ╠~J ►á▒É↑I°▒w≈⌂┐┐╙▌ÆZB┬╪q↕∞ ¥T9↕R½▼º╗╧√£■ß⌡▐4 ╧7âÄσ╗ÑV½▐.ià¿"╟ÿÖ¥éτ♫▄└W>╢ £æy╗=vm█╜)╝▀♂¼└6▀ƒyεƒ♂╙☼╪Ñ9£▓╖╞l■Ä⌡▬>δ╗│üσÿú╜▓(╖g[╬§≤ L╗S╕╕ⁿτ╔┴┼╤┴┴eü♣Φƒ∞╓╨GcS╧∟w s╫♂♀█/☼«Gµ╝|δ█ü9¢█F`·σëφ♫≡*╕│═↔·BV,╛│£í╜↑íöo→▐pzn·♂;≡y9╤4 ╬ƒÜf░╘⌠πz8ù├▼b╕n▓ºK}|α -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list