Use a user-agent other than the httplib2 default.

[ralphbean]

There is something about the default httplib2 user-agent that causes some web servers to throw up.

Try this, for example::

>>> import httplib2
>>> h = httplib2.Http()
>>> response, content = h.request(
...   "http://ankursinha.in/blog/feed/")
>>> response.status
406
>>> response, content = h.request(
...   "http://ankursinha.in/blog/feed/",
...   headers={'user-agent': 'trololololololol 9000'})
>>> response.status
200

[james-see]

Adding a custom user agent mitigated my issue with BadStatusLine errors. Thanks