[python-advocacy] Python makes the "most wanted list"

[Facundo Batista]

2008/2/9, Michael Pittaro <mikeyp at snaplogic.org>:

> We could probably update the urllib documentation to strongly encourage
> setting the User-agent header. The examples already show how to do it,
> but if urllib2.urlopen()  is the popular function, adding useragent as
> an argument to might be worth considering.

Setting the useragent, as any header, is plain easy.

urllib2, right or wrong, has a minimalistic approach regarding the
headers (for example, you send a POST request, adding data to it, and
automatically it does not incorporate a Content-Length header.

urllib2.urlopen could grow an User-Agent header, to make user aware
that it's normally a "useful" header.

But, remember that this method is multiprotocol, it supports file://,
or ftp://, for example...

Focusing in usefulness, I'd prefer a "headers" argument, but that's me.

Regards,

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