urlretrieve can't send headers

[Diez B. Roggisch]

triplezone3 schrieb:
> Hello. I'm using urllib.urlretrieve to download files,
> because it provides a handy hook function.
> Unfortunately, it won't let me send headers, which
> could be quite useful. Is there any way I could do
> this?

I suggest you look into urllib2. It allows you to explicitly create an 
request-object that you can stuff with headers and parameters and what 
you like.

diez