Force a User-Agent string that is NOT the default Python-urlib.#138
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Providing a custom user agent is a good idea.
Can you check whether there are any other uses of urllib in the code that we should adjust?
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Just checked. The other use is validating if the string is an URL and that won't access any site. So this should be it. |
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@bradjc - what do you think of this PR? |
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The default user-agent led to the connection being dropped.
This is especially annoying since the rampup documentation is telling you to download the tab from an URL and then that doesn't work.
Not sure if there are any other implications here, but at least the demo blink now works to be downloaded. I think this is annoying enough to warrant a release, actually, but your call.
Credit for the fix goes to Claude, but I was the one wondering what the heck was going on and why the doc instructions were failing.