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(a)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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