Python's urllib2 don't work on some sites

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Published on 2010-04-03T18:44:24Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 18:53 UTC
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I found that you can't read from some sites using Python's urllib2(or urllib). An example...

urllib2.urlopen("http://www.dafont.com/").read()
# Returns ''

These sites works when you visit the site. I can even scrap them using PHP(didn't try other languages). I have seen other sites with the same issue - but can't remember the URL at the moment.

My questions are...

What is the cause of this issue?
Any workaround for this issue?

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