From: akanksha <akanksha.baid@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T03:20:18+09:00
Subject: Re: open - uri question

yes that works and so does mechanize ....thanks!!!



ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 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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