[Python-Dev] "Leaving Sourceforge" article on Advogato

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> barry wrote:
> 
> >     akuchlin> There's a discussion of SourceForge alternatives at
> >     akuchlin> http://www.advogato.org/article/357.html, and in a
> >     akuchlin> comment someone mentions that there's an XML export of
> >     akuchlin> the data in the tracker.  Unfortunately I can't get it
> >     akuchlin> to work following his instructions, but perhaps someone
> >     akuchlin> else can experiment with it more than I can.
> >
> > I can't get it to work either, but if someone comes up with the right
> > recipe, I can add it to our backup script.
> 
> works fine from MSIE, using this URL:
> 
> url = (
>     "http://sourceforge.net/export/sf_tracker_export.php" +
>     "?atid=105470&group_id=5470"
>     )
> 
> returns a 1666445 byte large document (with no content
> type), starting with:
> ...
> (this returns the bugs database.  see
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470
> for atid's for other parts of the tracker)
> 
> doing the same through urllib doesn't appear work, though.
> 
> (no time to dig further into this right now)

FYI, It seems that you have to be logged into SF in order for the 
download to work. Netscape does the download too if you create a
web page and then use the right-click-download feature.

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