[Baypiggies] urllib2 query

[Isaac]

Setup a caching proxy and acquire the last-modified header from the http
proxy server. Then, here is a demonstration of a conditional GET request:

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=122&thread=15024

download the file from the proxy if the last-modified header is newer than
yours on disk.

HTH


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Vikram K <kpguy1975 at gmail.com> wrote:

> consider the following ftp site:
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/refseq/H_sapiens/
>
> I wish to write a program using urllib2 which can automatically download
> all the contents of one of the folders in this site (say, for example,
> mRNA_Prot) into a folder in my computer. Subsequently i want my program to
> be able to automatically update the downloaded folder in my computer in
> accordance with any changes made in future in the folder in the ftp site.
> Any suggestions on how i should proceed?
> I am using a windows 7 computer. Will i also have to use the scheduled
> tasks option in system tools for solving this problem?
>
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