From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-27T02:56:16+09:00
Subject: Re: open - uri question

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, akanksha wrote:

>> Maybe the service was down?
>
> The service was not down. Both urls open in a browser.
>
>
>
>> Or they may have it restricted to prevent scraping?
>> You may need to provide some info to fool the site into
>> thinking your a regular browser...
>
> How would I go about doing that ...could you plz point me to some
> info?
> Thank you.


you need to set user-agent to a 'real' browser. something like 'Mozilla/4.0'

-a
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