On Tuesday 09 November 2010, 03:10:24 Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <4cd7987e$0$1674$742ec...@news.sonic.net>, John Nagle wrote: > > It's the New York Times' paywall. They're trying to set a > > cookie, and will redirect the URL until you store and return the > > cookie. > > And if they find out you’re acessing them from a script, they’ll > probably try to find a way to block that as well.
..which could be alleviated by carefully crafting the requests ;-) Luckily, unpleasant related ground work was already done by others, e.g.: http://bugs.python.org/issue2275 Pete -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
