[Rivet] [Fastjet] FastJet "robot" downloads blocked

[Frank Siegert]

Hi Gregory,

thanks, I can confirm that this is also working for me with this change.

I wonder though why the Accept header is necessary: Shouldn't the
server assume the client takes any format if it doesn't specify an
accept header?

Cheers,
Frank


On 19 April 2013 15:17, Gregory Soyez <soyez at lpthe.jussieu.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The solution seems to be to replace
>
>   hreq = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>
> by
>
>   request = urllib2.Request(url, headers={"Accept" : "text/html"})
>   hreq = urllib2.urlopen(request)
>
> as it is indicated e.g. here
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/385262/how-do-i-send-a-custom-header-with-urllib2-in-a-http-request
>
> At the very least, it works at my end.
>
> Cheers,
> Gregory
>