How to redirect output to browser - second request for help

[Fredrik Lundh]

"A" <printers at sendme.cz> wrote:

> In other words I do NOT want to wait for downloading the
> whole file and only after that open that downloaded file
> in a web browser.

browsers have no problem reading data incrementally from
a web servers.  something like this might work:

# based on simplehttpserver-example-2.py from
# O'Reilly's Python Standard Library

import SocketServer
import SimpleHTTPServer
import urllib, string

PORT = 1234

class Proxy(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        path = self.path
        ... convert the path in some way ...
        file = urllib.urlopen(path) # or use httplib
        while 1:
            data = file.read(1024)
            if not data:
                break
            ... process the string in some way ...
            ... for example data = string.upper(data)
            self.wfile.write(data)
            self.wfile.flush()

httpd = SocketServer.ForkingTCPServer(('', PORT), Proxy)
print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

use the webbrowser module to point your browser to
localhost:1234.

</F>

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