UserAgentSelector: HTTP mode no longer working

[MrS0m30n3]

When using HTTP mode with the UserAgentSelector, a list with the most common user-agents is retrieved from techblog.willshouse.com.

This options no longer works!

When running all tests, test_load_from_HTTP_nomock fails.

Sending the request manually returns an HTTP error code 503:

import google_translate
reply = google_translate.utils.make_request(google_translate.UserAgentSelector.HTTP_URL)
#Traceback (most recent call last):
#  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
#  File "google_translate/utils.py", line 137, in make_request
#    raise error
#urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable

This is due to techblog being behind Cloudburst, which either blocks our requests or sends a redirection which our code does not know how to follow?

For now the workaround is to use UserAgentSelector with either user_agent or user_agent_file options. See this.

Not sure if i am going to fix this, anyway leaving this as a note.