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authorJames Taylor <user234683@users.noreply.github.com>2019-02-16 14:26:03 -0800
committerJames Taylor <user234683@users.noreply.github.com>2019-02-16 14:26:03 -0800
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fetch_url: Ensure urllib never leaks python version
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube')
-rw-r--r--youtube/common.py7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube/common.py b/youtube/common.py
index df8280d..cb963ce 100644
--- a/youtube/common.py
+++ b/youtube/common.py
@@ -182,7 +182,12 @@ def fetch_url(url, headers=(), timeout=15, report_text=None, data=None, cookieja
'''
headers = dict(headers) # Note: Calling dict() on a dict will make a copy
headers['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip, br'
-
+
+ # prevent python version being leaked by urllib if User-Agent isn't provided
+ # (urllib will use ex. Python-urllib/3.6 otherwise)
+ if 'User-Agent' not in headers and 'user-agent' not in headers and 'User-agent' not in headers:
+ headers['User-Agent'] = 'Python-urllib'
+
if data is not None:
if isinstance(data, str):
data = data.encode('ascii')