From 9dab6807be9fb8afa8217d566a28d9501247b66a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:25:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] News download: Add a default Accept header to all requests

---
 src/calibre/__init__.py       | 2 +-
 src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/__init__.py b/src/calibre/__init__.py
index cf4d09770c..eb428e9de4 100644
--- a/src/calibre/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/__init__.py
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ def random_user_agent():
 def browser(honor_time=True, max_time=2, mobile_browser=False, user_agent=None):
     '''
     Create a mechanize browser for web scraping. The browser handles cookies,
-    refresh requests and ignores robots.txt. Also uses proxy if avaialable.
+    refresh requests and ignores robots.txt. Also uses proxy if available.
 
     :param honor_time: If True honors pause time in refresh requests
     :param max_time: Maximum time in seconds to wait during a refresh request
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
index c74a9b662c..9773f6d0d8 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py
@@ -398,7 +398,9 @@ class BasicNewsRecipe(Recipe):
                 return br
 
         '''
-        return browser(*args, **kwargs)
+        br = browser(*args, **kwargs)
+        br.addheaders += [('Accept', '*/*')]
+        return br
 
     def clone_browser(self, br):
         '''