urlretrieve get file name

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 9/11/2006 19:11, Sven wrote:

>I'm wrestling with the urlretrieve function in the urllib module. I
>want to download a file from a web server and save it locally with the
>same name. The problem is the URL - it's on the form
>http://www.page.com/?download=12345. It doesn't reveal the file name.
>Some hints to point me in the right direction are greatly appreciated.

The file name *may* come in the Content-Disposition header (ex: 
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="budget.xls")
Use urlopen to obtain a file-like object; its info() method gives you 
those headers.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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