[Rivet] HepMC, cmake and our bootstrap script

[Andy Buckley]

Phew. I was thinking we'd have to see if we could set/fake the
User-Agent HTTP header with urllib2...

On 15/03/13 09:21, Frank Siegert wrote:
>> We have another problem: when downloading FastJet using Python's
>> urllib2 (as done in the bootstrap) one gets a 403 -- possibly to deny
>> access to (Python) bots. Downloading the same URL with wget works
>> fine. I have tried to work around this by specifying the User-Agent
>> header in the urllib2 request, but I still get a 403. Hendrik, can you
>> reproduce that, and would you have any other idea what to try out?
> 
> I can't reproduce this anymore today. Either the server setting has
> changed or there is some kind of dynamical rejection. Anyway, let's
> postpone this until it becomes a problem again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
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