downloading jpeg using python--extra bytes?

[Bigpond]

Try using the urllib module,

it handles all this low level stuff for you.

one line can do all that you have specified below, and it works...


Gabriel Berger <gberger at channel1.com> wrote in message
news:sf5001f0cqv98 at corp.supernews.com...
> Hello,
>
> I wrote a python script to download jpegs from web sites.
> (I realize that it's possible to do this using my browser, but
> as an exercise, I'd like to be able to do it directly.)
>
> The script works, with one exception: the jpeg image has
> extra bytes in it that corrupt the file.  I'm not sure exactly
> how the bytes are dispersed, but they're not all at the
> beginning or at the end.
>
> I would imagine that I need to modify my http request, but
> I don't know how to do so.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Here is the script:
>
> import httplib
> h = httplib.HTTP('www.something.com')
> h.putrequest('GET','/directory/picture.jpg')
> h.putheader('Accept','image/jpeg')
> h.endheaders()
> errcode,errmsg,headers = h.getreply()
> f=h.getfile()
> data=f.read()
> f.close()
> g = open("myjpeg.jpg","w")
> g.write(data)
> g.close()
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gabriel Berger
>
>