Issue 328 in specto: user agent setting?

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New issue 328 by nsw.prot...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
http://code.google.com/p/specto/issues/detail?id=328

Some site, like wikipedia return a 403 forbidden, I'm guessing because of
the user agent? Can there be an option for setting a custom user agent?

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Labels: WatchType-Web Type-Defect

Comment #1 on issue 328 by nekoh...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Hey there, I don't experience this problem. Please specify your version, if
possible test with the bzr version, and activate debug mode to provide
debug logs.

The development version of Specto already identifies as Specto for its user
agent.

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Status: Needinfo

Comment #2 on issue 328 by nekoh...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Comment #3 on issue 328 by julien.l...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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I have the same issue with Wikipedia. I use version Specto 0.3.1 that is
bundled with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

The last agent that you see in this window with the forbidden icon is set
to watch http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Canada

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Comment #4 on issue 328 by julien.l...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Sorry, imaged attached.

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Comment #5 on issue 328 by nekoh...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Well, you could edit spectlib/plugins/watch_web_static.py and replace the
custom agent in there. Otherwise I'd need a patch that makes this a
behavior dependent on a gconf key :)

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Comment #6 on issue 328 by julien.l...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Ok. I'm guessing that would be line 102 of the file in question:

102 request = web_proxy.urllib2.Request(self.uri, None,
{"Accept-encoding": "gzip"}

Reading the documentation at

http://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.request

I think I can figure out how to modify that line.

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Comment #7 on issue 328 by nekoh...@gmail.com: user agent setting?
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Nah, just search for "agent" in that file :) it's the line right above it
in my case.