updated url_to_image function

PyImageSearch / imutils

A series of convenience functions to make basic image processing operations such as translation, rotation, resizing, skeletonization, and displaying Matplotlib images easier with OpenCV and Python.

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updated url_to_image function #151

Open madooei opened 5 years ago

madooei commented 5 years ago

uses Request (with headers) now instead of directly attempting to urlopen the url

Why we need this? The security settings on some websites will block the request otherwise (assuming it was made by a bot agent).
For python 2.7 we need to import urllib2 since we are using Request module.