Urllib2

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Making a Request (pretending to be Firefox)

request = urllib2.Request(url)
user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080418 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.14"
request.add_header("User-Agent", user_agent)
pagefile=urllib2.urlopen(request)
realurl = pagefile.geturl()


Checking a Domain