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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14)
- Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup.
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- Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid
- "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend
- this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites
- that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers.
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- Handle redirects while looking for the icon.
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- Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects.
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- Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now.
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-WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20)
- Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks.
- Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header.
- Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it.
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- The project celebrates 10th anniversary!