[Tutor] Downloading from http

[Jacob S.]

urllib or urllib2 or maybe httplib maybe?

        urlopen( url[, data])

  Open the URL url, which can be either a string or a Request object.
  data should be a string, which specifies additional data to send to the 
server. In HTTP requests, which are the only ones that support data, it 
should be a buffer in the format of application/x-www-form-urlencoded, for 
example one returned from urllib.urlencode().

  This function returns a file-like object with two additional methods:


    a.. geturl() -- return the URL of the resource retrieved
    b.. info() -- return the meta-information of the page, as a 
dictionary-like object
  Raises URLError on errors.

  Note that None may be returned if no handler handles the request (though 
the default installed global OpenerDirector uses UnknownHandler to ensure 
this never happens).

This is taken from the docs on urllib2. I think that's what you want, right?
The tutorial or whatever, called "Dive into python", goes into accessing web 
pages a little more in depth than the docs do, I think.  You can google for 
it, I believe.

HTH,
Jacob


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> How can I download a file from an HTTP server ?
> I checked the documentation but couldn't find what I need.
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