I am trying to access an image from a url: http://www.lifeasastrawberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/IMG_1191-1024x682.jpg However, it fails with IOError("cannot identify image file") in the last step. Not sure what is going on or how to fix it. It has worked with many other url images. opener = urllib2.build_opener() opener.addheaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')] opener.addheaders = [('Accept', 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8')] opener.addheaders = [('Accept-Encoding', 'gzip,deflate,sdch')] response = opener.open(image_url,None,5) img_file = cStringIO.StringIO(response.read()) image = Image.open(img_file) this url also fails: http://www.canadianliving.com/img/photos/biz/Greek-Yogurt-Ceaser-Salad-Dressi1365783448.jpg Continue reading...
