[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-511073 ] urllib problems

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Bugs item #511073, was opened at 2002-01-30 23:25
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Category: Macintosh
Group: Python 2.2
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Yair Benita (ybenita)
Assigned to: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Summary: urllib problems

Initial Comment:
when using urllib.urlopen("url") and then reading 
the file with handle.read() i get only parts of pages. 
it works for short webpages but if i use it to 
download large pages it always come too short. To 
me it looks that it tries to read the file before it is 
downloaded. Jack Jansen's said: MacPython may 
do short reads on sockets. I've always maintained 
that this was correct (which reasoning was quietly 
accepted by everyone here), but last year I finally 
admitted that it may actually be incorrect (which 
was again quietly accepted:-)

example:
x=urllib.urlopen("http://www.ebi.ac.uk/cgi-bin/emblf
etch?db=embl&format=fasta&style=raw&id=AB002
378")
print x.read()

compare the file downloaded by any html browser 
and the file from macpython.

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