Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Steve Holden wrote: > >> Philip Semanchuk wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 6:48 PM, ajaksu wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 11, 11:59 pm, "James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hey all, >>>>> >>>>> The following fails for me: >>>>> >>>>>>>> from urllib2 import urlopen >>>>>>>> f = >>>>>>>> urlopen("http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-announce/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml") >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>> [...] >>>>> Any helpful ideas ? >>>> >>>> Maybe raise a real bug @ bugs.python.org instead of just mentioning it >>>> like I did: http://bugs.python.org/msg77889 >>>> >>>> I think at least some sites would be willing to add the new UA to >>>> their whitelists. >>> >>> I don't think I understand you clearly. Whether or not Google et al >>> whitelist the Python UA isn't a Python issue, is it? >>> >> I'd say it's an issue relevant to Python users, which woudl seem to put >> it pretty much in the mainstream for c.l.py - especially as the code >> causing concern was written in Python. > > I didn't mean to imply that the conversation didn't belong here. I think > that is perfectly appropriate. What I don't understand is the suggestion > that Google's server config should be raised as a bug against Python. > (i.e. "raise a real bug @ bugs.python.org...") > Oh, I see! Yes, it's hard to know what actions anyone could take on such a bug report. I suppose the documentation could be modified to describe how some services require specific agents, but that wouldn't help a huge amount.
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