How do I set headers using python's urllib?

Question

I am pretty new to python\'s urllib. What I need to do is set a custom header for the request being sent to the server. Specifically, I need to set the Content-type and Au

Answer 1

Use urllib2 and create a Request object which you then hand to urlopen. http://docs.python.org/library/urllib2.html

I dont really use the "old" urllib anymore.

req = urllib2.Request("http://google.com", None, {'User-agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5'})
response = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()

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