John Bradbury: >where do you set up the User-agent header you suggested. Its an HTTP header: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt See also: http://www.google.com/search?q=urllib+python+%22user%2Dagent%22 which leads you to... tada... the documentation! :-) http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-urllib.html -- René Pijlman