[Tutor] HTTP file download

[Ronaldo]

  Hi Kent,

  You were right. The code worked fine. I was doing some thing wrong 
with some characters in my URL (for example: I had to change "&" to 
"&").
  I'd like to thank you guys for your help.


Kent Johnson wrote:
> 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?
>
> The code below should work fine for a text file. Can you show us the 
> code that fails and tell us how it fails? If you can include the URL 
> you are trying to download that would also help.
>
> Kent
>>
>>   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
>