urllib accept-language doesn't have any effect

[Martin Bachwerk]

Hi,

yes, well my browser settings are set to display sites in following 
languages "en-gb" then "en".

As a matter of fact, Google does indeed show me the German site first, 
before I click on "go to google.com" and it probably stores a cookie to 
remember that.

But a site like gizmodo.com forwards me directly to the English site 
(even though they have a German version available). But the Python call 
returns the German version. How does that make sense?

Cheers,
Martin
> 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
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