[Tutor] HTTP file download

[Sönmez Kartal]

Hi,

Socket downloads the output of given URL. You can get the file's 
extension by URL and save it as a file with it's extension.

Sönmez

Ronaldo wrote:
>   Hi, Jean
> 
>   I've alredy tried this, but it seems that this kind of code just works
> when "file" in the url (http://www.somesite.com/file) is an html file.
> The thing is that "file" in this case is a text file. For example: if I
> try to download the file using a web browser, it asks me for a directory
> to save the file.
>   Do you have any other idea?
> 
>   Thanks.
> 
> Jean-Philippe Durand wrote:
>> Hello Ronaldo,
>> Try this :
>> import urllib                                       
>>
>> mysock = urllib.urlopen("http://www.somesite.com/file") 
>>
>> htmlSource = mysock.read()                            
>> mysock.close()                                        
>>
>> print htmlSource     
>> Regards.
>> Jean-Philippe DURAND
>>
>>
>> 2007/3/13, ronaldo at netf2r.com <mailto:ronaldo at netf2r.com> 
>> <ronaldo at netf2r.com <mailto:ronaldo at netf2r.com>>:
>>
>>     Hello all,
>>
>>     How can I download a file using HTTP?
>>     For example:
>>     There is a file at: http://www.somesite.com/file. I need to get
>>     this file using HTTP from a python script.
>>     I'm not sure but I think httplib could be used to do that.
>>     Can anyone confirm that? or Can anyone suggest me something else?
>>
>>     Thank you?
>>
>>     --
>>     Ronaldo Z. Afonso
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