python requests http response 500 (site can be reached in browser)

Question

I am trying to figure out what I\'m doing wrong here, but I keep getting lost...

In python 2.7, I\'m running following code:

>>> import requ         


        

Answer 1

The User-Agent, and also other header elements, could be causing your problem.

When I came accross this error I watched a regular request made by a browser using Wireshark, and it turned out there were things other than just the User-Agent in the header which the server expected to be there.

After emulating the header sent by the browser in python requests, the server stopped throwing errors.