urlretrieve a file whose name has spaces in it

Tue Jul 29 19:00:29 EDT 2003

> The statement:
> urllib.urlretrieve("http://website.com/path/string string1 foo.doc",
> "local_file");
> 
> produces local_file which contains the following one line:
> <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is
> incorrect. </body></html>
> 
> What is the correct way of specifying the this file in urlretrieve() ?

Have you tried 
urllib.urlretrieve("http://website.com/path/string%20string1%20foo.doc", 
"local_file"); ? (URLs can't really contain unescaped spaces.)

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