[Tutor] can I walk or glob a website?

[Flynn, Stephen (L & P - IT)]

Pardon the crappy quoting - forced to use Exchange. Top posted too...
the shame.

What about curl and libcurl? http://curl.haxx.se/

S.

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Alan Gauld
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [Tutor] can I walk or glob a website?


"Albert-Jan Roskam" <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote 

> How can I walk (as in os.walk) or glob a website? 

I don't think there is a way to do that via the web.
Of course if you have access to the web servers filesystem 
you can use os.walk to do it as for any other filesystem, 
but I don't think its generally possible over http. (And 
indeed it shouldn''t be for very good security reasons!)

OTOH I've been wrong before! :-)




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