Actually it seems like you might be able to do it with urllib too. http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib.html
Search for urlopener, there is an example. On Monday, 11 February 2013, Daniel Narvaez wrote: > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/blobs/master/src/sugar3/network.py > > That code *looks* trivial to port to urllib2. You could do that, submit > the patch and in the meantime just copy and paste the ported code in your > activity (it doesn't seem to have dependencies on other toolkit stuff). > Well, unless it's a gtk2 activity, in that case you can skip the "submit > the patch" step :) > > On Monday, 11 February 2013, James Simmons wrote: > >> Marcello (and everyone else who replied): >> >> It looks like the mirrors have the same policy. I'm currently using this >> to download from the URL: >> >> >> http://doc.sugarlabs.org/epydocs/sugar.network.GlibURLDownloader-class.html >> >> I'm not seeing a way to put a user agent in using this code. It looks >> like urllib2 supports it. I used the other because I was already using it >> for collaboration and it gives me a way to do a progress report on the >> download. I appreciate everyone's detective work and suggestions. >> >> James Simmons >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Marcello Perathoner < >> marce...@perathoner.de> wrote: >> >>> On 02/10/2013 06:46 PM, James Simmons wrote: >>> >>>> I had created an Activity for the One Laptop Per Child project which >>>> downloads and reads the Plain Text version of PG titles. I use the >>>> offline >>>> catalogue and some Python code to list available titles in the catalogue >>>> that match a search string. For instance the child might enter "Twain" >>>> and >>>> get a list of all the books by and about Twain. Then the child can >>>> download the book using the same program. >>>> >>>> This has been working well for years but lately it has stopped working. >>>> When I try to debug it I see it trying to download this URL for >>>> instance: >>>> >>>> http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/**1/1/119/119.zip<http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/1/119/119.zip> >>>> >>> >>> >>> Supply a user-agent that clearly defines your app and provides a way to >>> contact you eg. >>> >>> OLPCReader/1.0; >>> +http://www.olpc-reader.org/**app-info.html<http://www.olpc-reader.org/app-info.html> >>> >>> OLPCReader/1.0; +mailto:m...@example.com >>> >>> The standard Python-urllib user agent will not do! >>> >>> >>> or >>> >>> >>> use a mirror site. See: www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> -- >>> Marcello Perathoner >>> webmas...@gutenberg.org >>> >> >> > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > > -- Daniel Narvaez
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