urllib2 HTTPBasicAuthHandler and resumingbroken downloads

[Brendan]

On Aug 22, 1:59 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
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> En Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:55:57 -0300, Brendan <brendandetra... at yahoo.com>  
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> > On Aug 21, 3:57 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
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> >> En Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:37:41 -0300, Brendan <brendandetra... at yahoo.com>  
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> >> > Is there any way to resume an https file download using urllib2 and an
> >> > HTTPBasicAuthHandler?
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> >> You should provide the Range header (and probably If-Range too) in the  
> >> request.http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.35
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> > Ug. Why does everything in Python boil down to reading rfcs? It really
> > slows us non computer science types down. I'll probably spend a day on
> > this instead of an hour. I did search the web but had no luck finding
> > an example, so I posted here as a last resort.
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> The easy way is to use wget...
> If you want a Python example, go to the Python cookbook:http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/
> enter "resume download" in the search box, and the very first recipe shows  
> how to use the Range header.
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Thanks for the link. Much appreciated.