using python in www site

scott cotton scott at chronis.pobox.com
Sun May 9 22:52:02 EDT 1999


as an aside, i recently tried to use that script and found
that since it relies on CWD to tell what directory it is in,
it didn't mirror the site i wanted to mirror (that site had
CWD disabled in the ftpserver)

scott

On 09 May 1999 20:36:53 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>cg at laptop.cdg.acriter.nl (Cees de Groot) writes:
>
>> Talking about Python & Webhosts: is there an equivalent of "wwwsync" in
>> Python? If you don't know wwwsync: it's a Perl script that fetches a
>> recursive directly listing via FTP, compares it with a local copy of
>> the website, and uploads everything that has changed.
>
>The reverse exists (Tools/scripts/ftpmirror.py).  How hard would
>it be to add upload functionality to that?
>
>--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)




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