• http
  • urllib2
  • requests
  • urllib

Someone using a HTTP client, such as requests, urllib.client, or urllib2 is trying to load a website, and they are seeing different results from what works for them with a browser. Usually they get an HTTP error or the content they wanted to load is missing.

For example:

  • requests.get always gets a 404
  • Can’t scrape price information from site XYZ

Note that this is not about trying to log into a site!