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Re: urllib2 redirect error

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Subject Re: urllib2 redirect error
Date Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:29:44 +0200
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:
> ...
> I'm not an expert, but that sounds like a fault at the server end. I just
> tried it in Chrome, and it worked, and then with wget, and I get the same
> sort of error:
> ...
> Sounds like if the server doesn't recognise the browser, it gets 
> confused and ends up in a redirect loop.
>
> You could try setting the user-agent and see if that helps:

Excellent analysis and advice.

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urllib2 redirect error Sumit Ray <sumitbu.ray@gmail.com> - 2014-09-02 02:08 -0400
  Re: urllib2 redirect error Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-02 07:28 +0000
    Re: urllib2 redirect error dieter <dieter@handshake.de> - 2014-09-03 08:29 +0200
    Re: urllib2 redirect error Sumit Ray <sumitbu.ray@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 09:24 -0700

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