Thank you Brion and Mark.
I'm sorry but I don't know how to obtain the headers, however I am able to view the RSS files without problem with a browser, so I don't think it's a Wikipedia server issue. I changed the user-agent sent by the script to that of a popular browser (hadn't thought of that...) with no improvement. Finally went to FeedBurner.com and gave them the file to fetch. My program has been able to read it off the FeedBurner site without problem (updates every 30 mins, not ideal).
Any further insights or suggestions are welcome.
Ken
--- Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Oct 23, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Ken Ara wrote:
I have been reading the "recent changes" and "new articles" RSS-feeds through My Yahoo. Now I've
written
a small Python program to fetch and parse these
feeds,
but it fails most of the time with a message about "intermittent server problem" and warning that my user-agent may be blocked. Since the feeds are available through my browser, I conclude that I
have
been blocked. (My program sends the user-agent, 'WikiWalker' and provides my email address).
Can you provide a dump of the sent and received HTTP headers? You might just be getting timeouts, the servers have had some ups and downs lately.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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