Python Web Servers and Page Retrievers

[Max Erickson]

Subscriber123 <subscriber123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> urllib, or urllib2 for advanced users. For example, you can
> easily set your own headers when retrieving and serving pages,
> such as the User-Agent header which you cannot set in either
> urllib or urllib2. 

Sure you can. See:

http://www.diveintopython.org/http_web_services/user_agent.html

(though the behavior was changed for python 2.3 to make setting the 
user agent work better)


max