urllib accept-language doesn't have any effect

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Martin Bachwerk wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to load a couple of pages using the urllib2 module. The
> problem is that I live in Germany and some sites seem to look at the IP
> of the client and forward him to a localized page.. Here's an example of
> the code, how I want to access google.com main english page, but get
> German instead. (For those of you who live in US, you will probably get
> correct results.. try emulating with 'fr' in accepted languages or
> something)
> 
> opener = urllib2.build_opener()
> opener.addheaders = [('Host', 'www.google.com'),
> ('Accept-Language','en-gb,en;q=0.5'), ('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0
> (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208
> Firefox/3.0.1')]
> webfile = opener.open(url)
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

What is your actual problem - does it work with *other* requests you somehow
produce (browser or some such)?

In the end, it's up to the site you query to return you whatever they see
fit. Nothing urllib or python in general can change.

Diez