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)