urllib accept-language doesn't have any effect

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Martin Bachwerk wrote:

> 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?

I don't know. You need to have a look at what the browser communicates,
through a tool like tcpmon or wireshark. Once you've gathered all needed
header-information, you can mimic the same request using urllib.

Diez