urllib accept-language doesn't have any effect
Philip Semanchuk
philip at semanchuk.com
Wed Oct 15 11:41:04 EDT 2008
On Oct 15, 2008, at 9:50 AM, 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)
Martin,
It looks to me like what you're sending is correct. Debugging
suggestions --
- Set up a Web server on 127.0.0.1 and see what that server receives
when your Python code connects to it. Maybe you're not sending quite
what you think.
- Try emulating your Python code with wget or a similar command line
tool that lets you set headers.
- Sniff the conversation you're having with google using Wireshark.
Maybe you're getting redirected by the remote server.
Good luck
Philip
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