spoof_ff.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
"""
pretend to the web server that you are browsing
from mozila firefox
"""

import urllib2

BROWSER = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0'
URL = 'http://www.gentoo.org'


def spoof_firefox():
    opener = urllib2.build_opener()
    opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', BROWSER)]
    result = opener.open(URL)
    print "Response headers:"
    for header in result.headers.headers:
        print "\t", header

if __name__ == '__main__':
    spoof_firefox()